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With data privacy laws enacted in three states and more than 50 bills in the legislative process in 25 others, state agencies must prepare to ensure that companies comply with them. But that could prove tricky for many reasons, an expert says...

The new offerings include Rise with SAP and options to use a hybrid approach for regulated and non-regulated industries. IBM is offering a new service to help SAP customers move workloads and applications from on-premise data centers to the cloud. The companies announced Thursday that IBM will be a premium supplier for Rise with SAP. Also, consulting services will be available to help SAP customers move to SAP S/4Hana Cloud.

Although fewer than 40% of tech executives store more than half of their legacy app data on the cloud, more than 80% of tech leaders are prioritizing a move to the cloud for their legacy app data over the next 12 months...

Moving legacy IT to the cloud is a top objective for most organizations, but there are significant barriers in terms of data regulations, security and uncertain cloud costs...

While 95% of tech leaders worldwide say moving their legacy application data to the cloud is a priority, and 80.5% want to do it within the next 12 months, only 35% of tech leaders currently store more than half their legacy data in the cloud...

Some of the major obstacles center on concerns about compliance, fears about security and infrastructure and uncertainty about budget requirements. A recent report from migration software provider Archive360 looks at the obstacles and concerns over cloud migrations of legacy data.