48 percent of the public sector organizations in the United Kingdom (UK) state that they will not use public cloud for their most secure and sensitive systems. On the other hand, two percent claim that they would not disregard using public cloud for any use case.
Which of the following would you not consider using public cloud for?
Characteristic
Share of respondents
My most secure and sensitive systems
48%
Traditional IT environments that are not cloud native
45%
Systems that need to run on-premise or in Crown-Hosting
40%
Systems that need to connect to private or community networks (like PSN, HSCN and RLI)
38%
Legacy systems such as Mainframe, AS/400 and SPARC
32%
None of the above
2%
N/A - I do not know
1%
0%5%10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45%50%55%
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