Bitglass study finds that EMEA cloud adoption continues to outpace rest of the world

• EMEA To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. cloud adoption has increased to 84 To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. percent; 5 in 6 companies analy sed To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. have deployed at least one cloud application
• Office To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. 365 continues its domination over G Suite
• Financial To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. services and healthcare see surge in cloud adoption rates
• Many To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. organisations fail to deploy adequate cloud security

LONDON, Aug. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitglass,To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. the Next-Gen CASB company, today released its second annual EMEA Cloud Adoption Report, whichTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. reveals rates of cloud adoption and deployment of security tools across Europe.

TheTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. findings show that EMEA cloud adoption continues to outpace the rest of the world, with 84 percent of EMEA organisations migrating to apps like Office 365, AWS, G Suite and Slack to leverage the productivity and cost benefits of the public cloud. The results found that EMEA cloud adoption rates have increased by 27 percent since the initial study in 2016.

OfficeTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. 365 is the most widely adopted cloud application across EMEA. 65 percent of organisations now use this application – an increase of 51 percent compared to Bitglass’ 2016 study. Usage of AWS far exceeds the rate of AWS deployments globally. Worldwide only 8 percent use AWS while in EMEA that figure rises to 21.8 percent.

TheTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. report also finds that many EMEA organisations lack even the most basic security tools. Only 47 percent of organisations analysed had a single sign-on (SSO) tool in use, for example.

RichTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. Campagna, CMO at Bitglass said: “The results of this survey reinforce what we found in our 2016 study – organisationsTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. in EMEATo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. are embracingTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. cloud productivity apps but still lack the security tools necessary to protect data. In cloud-first environments, security must evolve to protect data on many more endpoints and in many more applications.”

Key To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. findings:

• OfficeTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. 365 adoption continues to grow. More than three times as many organisations now use Office 365 (65 percent) as useTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. G Suite (19 percent). Office 365 adoption in EMEA has grown by over 50 percent in the last two years.
• DespiteTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. falling usage numbers overall, G Suite remains popular in France (30 percent adoption) and Spain (40 percent).
• AWSTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. usage in EMEA exceeds the rate of AWS usage globally. 21.8 percent of EMEA organisations now use AWS, compared to just 8 percent worldwide. 
  • GovernmentTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. organisations lead the way from a vertical industry perspective with a 41.6 percent adoption rate. UtilitiesTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. trailed withTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. just 5.3 percent adoption.
• RegulatedTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. industries including finance and healthcare saw significant gains in cloud adoption rates. Within finance and healthcare, use of Office 365 has nearly doubled since 2016.
• LessTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. than 50 percent of organisations have deployed even the most basic cloud security tool – SSO.To view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.  Only 47 percent of organisations sampled had a SSO tool in use.
  • SSOTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. is most widely adopted in education (64 percent), biotech (54 percent) healthcare (53.7 percent) and finance (53.5 percent)

Methodology
TheTo view this piece of content from cqqmjjiknxoi.portal.bitglass.com, please give your consent at the top of this page. Bitglass research team used company domains to identify the cloud apps deployed in each organisation, and whether security technologies such as single sign-on (SSO) are in use.  The sample included 20,000 organisations in France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and UK.

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