The data illustrates the leading drivers of moving workloads to cloud-based services, according to a 2017 survey of IT professionals in North America and Europe. As of 2017, 42% of respondents highlighted the ability of cloud services to provide access to data anywhere as one of the top drivers of moving workloads to the cloud.
Provide access to data anywhere | 42 |
Enhance disaster recovery capabilities | 38 |
Enable better flexibility/scalability | 37 |
Reduce support burden on IT staff | 36 |
Reduce capital expenditures | 28 |
Improve data security | 26 |
Increase storage capacity | 26 |