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Survey of top barriers to using cloud-based IT services North America/EMEA 2015

Barriers to using cloud-based IT services, according to North American and EMEA IT professionals, as of 2015

The data illustrates the leading barriers to using cloud-based IT services, according to a 2015 survey of IT professionals conducted by Spiceworks. As of 2015, 60% of respondents highlighted speed and latency issues as one of the top barriers standing in the way to greater cloud-based IT service use.

Speed / latency issues	60
Bandwidth requirements	58
Lack of control over infrastructure	52
Risk of security breach	52
Risk of service outage or service degradation	51
Internal resistance / bureaucracy	41
Risk of data loss	36
Location of physical servers where data is stored	34
Not cost-effective	30
Business re-engineering required	30
Lack of interoperability of cloud services	23

Survey of top barriers to using cloud-based IT services North America/EMEA 2015

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