43% do not know whether their data fails over to a secondary location during an outage
42% do not know w在这里 their data centres are located
25% do not know whether their data resides in the UK
92% have never visited the data centre they’re using
A survey carried out by Manchester data centre provider, 远程数据, has revealed that a high proportion of businesses utilising cloud computing aren’t asking adequate questions of their cloud provider, putting them at risk of outages and compliance breaches.
调查, which targeted businesses that are using cloud based IT solutions, found that 43% of businesses don’t know whether or not their data fails over to a secondary location during an outage. Of those that do have a failover process in place, 20% could not confirm w在这里 that data fails over to. 42% don’t know w在这里abouts their data centres are located, and a quarter didn’t know whether their data stays in the UK.
更令人担忧的是, a third of respondents didn’t know whether the data centres they’re using are ISO compliant and 50% were unaware of their data centre’s tier rating.
马特Edgley, Commercial Director for 远程数据 commented; “If businesses are handing over valuable data without fully understanding w在这里 it’s going, how it’s being supported and who’s looking after it, then they are potentially opening themselves up to all manner of complications and risks.
“As part of a company's business continuity plans, it’s vitally important to understand what happens in the event of an outage. Will they still be able to access their company data? How will this impact productivity, their customers, and ultimately their bottom line? Under regulations such as GDPR and the NIS Directive, cross-border transfers can cause major compliance challenges, and data hosted outside the UK may also have an impact on latency, so it’s important that businesses understand whether or not their data centre provider can guarantee data sovereignty.”
调查 also found that 67% of respondents don’t know whether their cloud provider owns the data centre facility they’re using, 92% have never visited their data centre and 8% of cloud users don’t know who their cloud provider is.
远程数据, which provides cloud hosting, 主机托管, workplace recovery and data centre services, is offering a free download to help companies make sure that they’re asking their cloud providers the right questions, thus ensuring data security, availability and compliance to best protect businesses against the damaging effects of downtime and data breaches.
The free download - 10 Questions You Should Be Asking Your Cloud Provider - is available from 远程数据’s website 在这里.
Founded in 2007, 远程数据 is an ISO27001 certified data centre based in Manchester. Its solutions are designed to enable organisations to protect their applications, data and online presence from the damaging effects of downtime, and to make the most effective and efficient use of technology with secure and scalable hosting platforms tailored to business critical needs.
