48% of ANZ businesses plan to implement object lock in the next year or beyond.

Almost one in six APAC organisations report negative business impacts from cold storage performance delays.

66% of organisations in Japan say they recover data from public cloud for backup and recovery purposes, at least monthly. This is lower than the APAC average of 80%

49% of end-user cloud storage spending in APAC goes to fees for storage and networking, rather than actual storage used.

100% of ANZ organisations surveyed say they access or retrieve archived data at least annually.

68% of ANZ organisations recover data from public cloud storage at least weekly for backup purposes.

Pricing remains the top driver of dissatisfaction among ANZ public cloud storage users.

Networking fees, data management fees, data access and retrieval requests, and egress fees are among the costliest for APAC respondents.

63% of businesses in Japan exceeding their cloud storage budget.

66% of ANZ respondents exceeded their planned cloud storage spending in the past year.

Over half (64%) of ANZ organisations report a weekly rate of access to archived data.

One in six (17%) ANZ businesses report negative operational impacts from cold storage performance or access delays.

Less than half (48%) of ANZ businesses currently use object lock.

Fees eat up nearly half (49%) of total public cloud storage bills for Japan enterprises.

64% of organizations aim to strengthen policy enforcement across cloud environments.

82% of US cybersecurity professionals blame complex environments with multiple clouds and data stores as a top barrier to effective data security.

Over 7,400 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were detected on cloud systems hosting security.txt files from insecure versions exposed to the internet as of September 2024.

Cloud service providers began offering automated security.txt file generation to improve adoption.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of UK CISOs feel that their client, customer, partner and employee PII is secure in cloud environments.