Europe leads the world in cloud adoption

Europeans have the highest cloud adoption rate in the world at 84 percent according to a new report, up by 27 percent since 2016. The study of 20,000 organisations' use of cloud technology was carried out by cloud security company Bitglass finds that Office 365 is the most widely adopted cloud application across EMEA. Some 65 percent of organisations now use Office 365 -- an increase of 51 percent compared to a similar study in 2016. Usage of AWS in EMEA far exceeds the rate of AWS deployments globally, with just eight percent using AWS worldwide while in EMEA that… [Continue Reading]