The highest shares of enterprises using the cloud in 2014 were observed in Finland (51%), Italy (40%), Sweden (39%) and Denmark (38%). On the opposite end of the scale, cloud computing services were used by less than 10% of enterprises in Romania (5%), Latvia and Poland (both 6%), Bulgaria, Greece and Hungary (all 8%).
Most of the companies in Romania resort to cloud computing for e-mail services (76%), while the services of storage of files, databases and software are used by 36%-37% of the companies.
The risk of a security breach, high costs, uncertainty about the location of data, as well as insufficient knowledge of cloud computing are the main factors limiting the use or the further use of cloud computing services.