UAE is a world leader in public cloud adoption

UAE is a world leader in public cloud adoption

UAE ranks second for Public Cloud Adoption at 34% with China 37%

More than half (53%) of UAE respondents no longer have visibility of their entire data footprint leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks

56% agreed that relying only on their cloud service providers security tools puts their organisation at risk, with 35% reporting financial loss due to paying ransoms to cyber attackers

Veritas urges organisations to adopt a unified data management approach for their multi-cloud, hybrid environments

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Veritas Technologies, the global leader in data protection, today unveiled the results from its international cloud survey. Launched at Gitex Global 2022 the research reveals that UAE organisations have made strong progress in the transition to cloud, ranking as the second-highest adopter of public cloud services globally. However, there is still much to be done to ensure the data they have moved to the cloud is protected, compliant and available.

Surveying over 1,500 IT decision makers across 12 countries, including 100 respondents from the UAE, Veritas has found that more than half (53%) of UAE organisations do not have full visibility of their data.

The opaque understanding of where data is stored is compounded by the adoption of a multi-cloud provider strategy, with