Payment and customer information are among data most often stored in the cloud. Participants in this study estimate that cloud use will increase over the next two years. The Ponemon Institute surveyed 3,476 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Russia, India and Brazil. Respondents say that 36 percent of their organizations total IT and data processing requirements are met using cloud resources. This is expected to increase to an average of 45 percent in the next 2 years.”]