Around 77 per cent of UK companies are failing to prepare themselves for possible cloud outages, according to a recent study conducted by Veritas Technologies'.

The UK is among the very strongest countries when it comes to cloud computing, according to the latest Global Cloud Computing Scorecard by the British Software Alliance (BSA).

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reportedly consulting cloud computing providers about the logistics of moving its data operations off-site, with the organisation aiming to be cloud-first in the next few years.

A recent report has suggested that many British businesses lack the tools, protocols and skills necessary to ensure that their cloud computing processes are secured.

The technology division of the National Health Service (NHS) has said that it believes the public cloud is a good place to store patient information despite recent high-profile cyberattacks.

One of the world’s leading cyber security experts has claimed that the economic damage of a major cyber-attack against a large cloud services provider could match that wrought by a destructive hurricane.

A new market survey has found that cloud-enabling hardware for public and private use is in high demand among enterprises, with the total revenue generated by sales swelling to twice the level seen in 2013.

The cloud is set to account for 95 per cent of data centre traffic by the year 2021, marking an increase of 88 per cent from 2016, according to a new report from Cisco.

Ransomware is likely to become one of the biggest cyber threats to face businesses in 2018 as ransomware experts begin targeting the growing number of cloud computing companies, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed.

A new forecast released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that worldwide cloud computing revenues will hit $554 billion by 2021, more than double the revenue achieved in 2016.