As more and more traditionally slower-moving industries start to move their resources to the cloud, an interesting note from Evolve IP: healthcare IT professionals believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-premises when faced with a hardware issue or environmental disaster.
The report, which surveyed 180 healthcare professionals, found that for environmental disasters, 61% of respondents felt their information was safest in a private cloud, compared to 27.5% for a public cloud and 11.5% on premise, while for malicious attacks and hardware malfunctions 58.5% each also preferred a private cloud. Interestingly, for malicious attacks on premise (32%) was significantly the second most popular option.