CLOUDFLARE STUDY: MAJORITY RESPONDENTS FIND VALUE IN CONNECTIVITY CLOUD APPROACH

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc has released a commissioned study that underscores companies’ growing need to connect everything in their business, while maintaining control over their security, productivity and competitive growth.

To help the industry address this emerging challenge, Cloudflare is introducing the concept of the connectivity cloud, a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their increasingly complex and sprawling technology and data.

According to a statement, in the last several years, global organisations have seen a dramatic increase in the adoption of more applications, often Software as a Service (SaaS)-based, to help teams efficiently and collaboratively operate in a hybrid work environment.

However, this has introduced new risks and challenges and led nearly 40 per cent of organisations to agree or strongly agree that they are losing control over their information technology (IT) and security environments.

IT and Security teams are now tasked with responsibilities to remain productive and compliant while managing an increasingly complex landscape, and a third of organisations say these new responsibilities were not in their purview five years ago.

For instance, 52 per cent of IT and security teams were not responsible for ensuring security for all in-office, remote or hybrid workers five years ago, but are today.

In addition, greater than 40 per cent are also now responsible for managing and securing applications in public cloud environments or managing and securing data in SaaS environments, despite not owning these areas five years ago.

Furthermore, IT and security leaders see their major challenges revolving around managing a growing business landscape while ensuring their team remains productive and secure.

The study reveals that 98 per cent of organisations agree that today’s businesses would gain value from a connectivity cloud that provides secure, performant, “any-to-any” connectivity, more now than ever before.

In September 2023, Cloudflare commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the IT and security ecosystem whereby Forrester conducted an online survey with 449 IT decision makers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

-- BERNAMA