Cloud Email Adoption Spikes to Nearly 50 Percent of Enterprises; EMEA and APAC Outpace North America
CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 27, 2015) - Bitglass, the Total Data Protection company, today announced its second annual Cloud Adoption Report. The global report shows a dramatic coup by Microsoft Office 365 (O365), overtaking Google for the lead in cloud email and productivity since last year's report. Microsoft O365 adoption grew more than 300 percent (25.2 percent in the enterprise, up from just 7.7 percent last year). Even with the scale tipping toward Microsoft, Google has still grown its enterprise user base to 22.8 percent, up from 16.3 percent last year. Overall, nearly half (48 percent) of enterprises are using cloud-based productivity and email suites. What's more, the Bitglass report finds that nearly 60 percent of organizations with more than 1,000 employees embrace cloud technologies.
This year's report draws on the largest data set available on this topic, leveraging automated, cloud-based analysis of real-world traffic data from nearly 120,000 organizations globally. The focus of the report includes major enterprise cloud applications, including Microsoft O365, Google Apps, SalesForce and Box.
"Cloud adoption is at an all-time high and Microsoft is overtaking Google. The surprise is that large corporations -- even in heavily regulated industries -- are gaining confidence in cloud apps," says Nat Kausik, CEO of Bitglass. "While enterprises readily migrate email to the cloud, they are reluctant to move years of accumulated intellectual property to cloud-based file sharing services, such as SharePoint and Google Drive, due to security challenges. Cloud Access Security Brokers are filling critical security gaps, paving the way for broader adoption of cloud apps in the enterprise."
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To access the Bitglass Global Cloud Adoption Report, visit: http://pages.bitglass.com/Bitglass_cloud_adoption_report_2015.html
About Bitglass
Bitglass (bitglass.com) is a Cloud Access Security Broker that delivers innovative technologies that transcend the network perimeter to deliver total data protection for the enterprise -- in the cloud, at access, on mobile devices, on the network and anywhere on the Internet. The company was recently named a 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor in Audit & Compliance. Bitglass was founded in 2013 by a team of industry veterans with a proven track record of innovation and execution. Bitglass is based in Silicon Valley.
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