Security and Data Access in the Cloud

Are these really valid concerns?

I can understand how Fortune 500 IT organizations supporting large enterprises would pause temporarily when considering the industrial strength characteristics of the cloud. Having been a Global CIO in a multi billion dollar enterprise, I'd want to be thoroughly convinced before exposing the "family jewels" to the cloud, so to speak.

More than anything else, these companies in most cases have spent considerable time, money and resources on securing their present IT infrastructure, so it’s only prudent that they would look for a comprehensive set of assurances before considering the leap to the cloud when it comes to their “make or break” business applications.

But the converse is also true when it comes to emerging and mid-sized (SMB) firms who simply don’t have the resources or the deep pockets to implement a comprehensive security and backup system.

Cloud-based services like software-as-a-service, leverage economies of scale by hosting thousands of clients and therefore can invest heavily in an enterprise-class outcome that will largely exceed the security and backup capabilities that these smaller, emerging clients could ever hope to accomplish on their own.

It simply wouldn’t be a reasonable financial consideration for them.

Overtime, cloud computing will address all of these concerns, regardless of the differences that exist today.

It’s as compelling as the consumer shift that took place when the ATM replaced the need to engage a bank teller for every transaction.


Dave Rice, CEO TrueCloud

http://www.truecloud.com.