Surveys show that security concerns are primarily stopping user from using cloud solutions. In reality, the security provided by reputed cloud vendors is much more secure than home grown solutions as seen in Sony's email hack and target credit card breach cases. Cloud solutions are cheaper, adds flexibility, providing tremendous computation capacities to users in just second without even installing software. It updates continuously, where we can store personal data with greater security because the cloud service provider know better protection than a customer. People are reluctant towards transferring all data from premise to cloud just for analysis because they don't understand how much of the data analyzed comes from internal system. Audience at the international conferences uses cloud analytics over Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing (HTAP) due to risk of disruption of jobs. The visible risks of cloud solutions are acceptable because of the rule that relying on outside services run by experts completely overwhelms the potential cost. Read more at:- http://timoelliott.com/blog/2015/10/whos-afraid-of-cloud-analytics.html