Data security top concern for IT, business execs.

• Position: CLOUD

For the past 50 years, through its National Historical Publications anResults of Saugatuck Technology's "2013 Cloud Survey" of 218 IT and business executives across organizations of all sizes revealed that data protection and security is their top concern related to using cloud-based services. This is consistent with the survey results for most of the past seven years.

Here are the top 11 cloud concerns, according to the survey:

1. Data security/privacy

2. Data/transaction integrity

3. Regulatory compliance

4. Integrating cloud-based data or workflow with existing enterprise applications

5. Cloud provider transparency (e.g., uptime, service level agreements, computer resource location)

6. Ability to customize cloud solutions

7. Dependable delivery of required high availability/performance

8. Viability cloud...