In the second year, price became a major factor in cloud strategy as many IT budgets shrunk – though companies continued to invest heavily in data security. In the first year of the crisis, companies had to devote considerable effort to encouraging use of the cloud to allow for remote work. The pandemic changed the operational strategies and IT budgets of Swiss enterprises, increasing overall adoption of cloud technologies, the report says. “Companies are migrating to Azure with service providers that have local operations and meet their security requirements.” “Azure is beginning to find a place in the Swiss cloud business,” said Uwe Ladwig, director, ISG DACH. However, since Microsoft created the Swiss region, IT service providers have significantly increased their commitment to Azure and more enterprises have adopted it. The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Ecosystem Partners report for Switzerland finds most Swiss companies still prefer local cloud providers and are reluctant to migrate business processes and applications to Azure, mostly because of data security concerns.

ZÜRICH-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Swiss enterprises, typically conservative about cloud migration, have grown more accepting of the Microsoft Azure cloud since a Switzerland region was established for it in 2020, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group ( ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.

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