90 percent of enterprises run or plan to run VMs in the cloud

In a new survey released ahead of this year's VMworld, cloud protection and management company Druva reveals cloud adoption is growing for virtualized workloads, with 90 percent of respondents running, or planning to run, virtual machines in the cloud in 2018. But the survey also highlights significant risks associated with this shift, as organizations discover that on-premises approaches to data management are outdated and no longer adequate for the cloud era. Among other findings are that 41 percent of organizations are currently running VMs in the cloud, up from 31 percent in 2017. AWS remains a leader with 59 percent… [Continue Reading]