There's been a major increase in cloud adoption because of COVID-19, but there's also widespread misconception surrounding responsibility for backup and recovery of data in the cloud and a lack of confidence in the security of data held by public cloud service providers.

A new report from Arcserve company StorageCraft shows 47 percent of respondents accelerated adoption of cloud services for data management, 59 percent confirmed increased use of cloud backup services, 56 percent increased the use of the cloud for IT infrastructure (IaaS), and 39 percent increasingly rely on cloud services for data recovery.

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A new survey carried out by Researchscape for data management company Ataccama reveals that 79 percent of executives and 75 percent of line of business users face problems with data quality.

With 78 percent of organizations relying on data more when compared to the year before the pandemic this is a major problem, as using poor quality data in analytics and AI initiatives can lead to misinformed business decisions.

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Consumers are exercising their privacy rights -- to access, delete or stop the sale of their data -- under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which came into force last year.

A new report from privacy platform DataGrail shows that consumers are increasingly concerned about their personal information and how it's used. It also reveals that the number of data subject requests (DSRs) companies receive varies wildly, depending on their privacy practices.

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A rapid shift to remote work and the need to make use of individuals' health information has led to greater emphasis on the importance of privacy protections during the pandemic.

The fourth annual Data Privacy Benchmark Study from Cisco, released today, analyzed the responses of 4,400 security and privacy professionals across 25 countries and explores attitudes towards privacy legislation and the emergence of privacy metrics being reported at senior level.

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2020 showed all the ways that data protection could go wrong. Ransomware took off on a steady incline throughout the year with record numbers of data theft, corruption, etc. Data sprawl and cloud access to data have also become threats, as many employees moved to remote work and expanded companies’ potentially vulnerable data environments. 

Organizations are paying more attention to security and data protection issues while utilizing cloud to better manage and protect their critical data. 

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Nations around the world are introducing new standards and regulations to address data access, protection, and privacy. This means businesses need to evaluate and set data controls at the appropriate level for each place they operate in.

To help with this problem Cloudflare is launching a Data Localization Suite to give businesses the tools to address their data locality, privacy, and compliance needs.

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According to new research 72 percent of enterprises believe data governance is an enabler of business value rather than a cost center.

However, the study from enterprise search specialist Sinequa also shows that data privacy concerns are ranked as a top barrier to being more data-driven as an organization.

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The shift in working patterns prompted by COVID-19 has caused unnecessary short-term investment in technology, which will leave companies at risk with data being stored on a wide range of devices.

This is according to 78 percent of respondents to a new survey from data erasure specialist Blancco Technology Group, which also reveals 47 percent of large global enterprises have created roles responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with e-waste policies specifically to deal with issues generated from the pandemic.

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According to a new survey of IT decision makers, 73 percent rely on data more to make business decisions and 33 percent believe the value of data has permanently increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study from Druva surveyed 700 IT decision makers in the US and UK and underpins the importance of maximizing the value of data as businesses navigate an unprecedented global landscape.

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Businesses are increasingly reliant on data. In the past that's generally been in a structured form but, thanks to increasing amounts of customer information gleaned via the IoT and channels like social media, unstructured data has taken on a new importance.

Yet unstructured data also introduces new risks. AI-based solutions specialist Concentric is launching a new data access governance solution that addresses the challenge of unstructured data security. We spoke to Karthik Krishnan, CEO at Concentric, to find out more.

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As businesses become more reliant on data, ensuring that it's free of bias is essential to meeting compliance requirements as well as delivering useful insights.

A new AI-driven platform from Synthesized has been designed to understand a wide array of regulatory and legal definitions relating to contextual bias. It can automatically identify bias across data attributes like gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, and more.

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Security breaches and privacy violations can cost businesses dearly. not only in financial penalties but also by causing damage to their reputation.

Keeping tabs on your data and how it's used is an essential part of staying in control and it's an area where AI can help. We spoke to Amar Kanagaraj, founder and CEO of AI-powered data protection and data governance specialist oneDPO to find out more.

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The share of companies using Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) has increased to 45 percent, compared to 40 percent last year, according to a new survey.

The study from open source database company Percona finds more than half (56 percent) of large companies use DBaaS. In line with the trend of companies looking to mitigate their risk, around half use more than one DBaaS service.

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Data is among an enterprise's most valuable assets, no matter where or how it's stored, having visibility and unified access control is essential.

Mohit Tiwari, CEO at Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) company Symmetry Systems, left a professorship at the University of Texas in Austin to start the business and develop a new approach to data security in the form of Symmetry DataGuard which maintains authority over data even when all else fails. We spoke to him to find out more.

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New research published today by intelligent integration platform SnapLogic reveals that 83 percent of organizations are not fully satisfied with the performance and output of their data management and data warehousing initiatives.

The study carried out by independent research firm Vanson Bourne, finds that the average organization has 115 distinct applications and data sources across their enterprise, but almost half of them (49 percent) are siloed and disconnected from one another.

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