What is the Biggest Obstacle to Moving Your Business to the Cloud? (POLL)


What is the Biggest Obstacle to Moving Your Business to the Cloud? (POLL)

Moving your business to the cloud can make it and you more efficient. It also can help you connect and collaborate with others who aren’t necessarily right next to you.

Actually, there are plenty of benefits when moving your business to the cloud.

Of course, if it were so easy and without worry, you’d figure that every small business would be doing it by now. But that’s not the case. So obviously there is still some hesitancy on the part of some small business owners to trust their data and their business operations to cloud computing.

But why?

This week we’re asking the question, why are you waiting to move your business to the cloud? Is it a matter of time or is it just a matter of being unsure what’s involved? Are your concerns based on security issues? Or is it something else?

Let us know in the poll below and feel free to provide more details if you wish in the Comments section.

What is the biggest obstacle to moving your business to the cloud?

  • I'm overwhelmed by the logistics of moving all my data. (33%, 137 Votes)
  • I'm concerned about the time/disruption required to make the move. (25%, 101 Votes)
  • I'm concerned about the possibility of having my data hacked/lost/compromised. (20%, 80 Votes)
  • I'm concerned that the costs will be prohibitive. (12%, 50 Votes)
  • Other (6%, 23 Votes)
  • I'm concerned about losing control of my data. (5%, 19 Votes)

Total Voters: 410

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Joshua Sophy Joshua Sophy is the Editor for Small Business Trends and the Head of Content Partnerships. A journalist with 20 years of experience in traditional and online media, he is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He founded his own local newspaper, the Pottsville Free Press, covering his hometown.

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  1. It seems that most have the same concern as I do. It seems that the problem with exposing your data to the cloud is that it is at most risk of data breach.