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Bitkom: When the cloud is suddenly unavailable

July 26, 2024. No access to saved files, the company chat remains silent or the AI tools suddenly cannot be used? When the cloud service provider has a fault, company IT often comes to a standstill. 81% of companies in Germany currently use cloud computing. Four out of ten (39 percent) report individual outages in the past twelve months. In contrast, 55 percent had no problems at all, while 6 percent do not know exactly or do not want to give any details. These are the results of a representative survey of 603 companies with 20 or more employees from all sectors of the economy commissioned by the digital association Bitkom.

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“Cloud providers can generally make their infrastructure much more fail-safe than the IT departments of individual companies can. The reliability of many cloud offerings is close to 100 percent,” says Lukas Klingholz, cloud expert at Bitkom. “However, precautions should be taken as part of a cloud strategy just in case.”

Practically all companies that have been affected by cloud disruptions (99%) have subsequently drawn up a contingency plan. Almost half (48%) have renegotiated their cloud contracts, while just over a third (37%) have subsequently switched to multi-cloud and thus made additional cloud infrastructure available. This involves obtaining cloud services from different providers. A tenth of those affected (10 percent) have subsequently switched cloud providers.

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