We still talk about security concerns that makes the organizations hesitate to go on the cloud. Many security vendors do say that the cloud security solutions are more robust than the traditional solutions. I also truly believe that security will not be that big an issue for the cloud and the existing security solutions are robust enough to withstand security threats.
So a recent IDC comment on cloud and virtualization really made me excited:
"Looking forward to the near future and the impact of the development of Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), IDC predicts cloud computing and virtualization technology to be the long-term development directions for optimizing management overheads in the security software market. Automation and centralized management is the ‘paradise’ that organizations are looking for. A cloud-based security software will provide a real time protection to the information flows with broad user coverage as it just requires one single point for automated patches and thus quicker in terms of definitions generating and updating. Meanwhile, security software solutions in the virtualized environment have become the fundamental equipment amongst solution providers, as the highway to virtualized environment getting established and in a faster speed with the propagation of cloud computing."
So a recent IDC comment on cloud and virtualization really made me excited:
"Looking forward to the near future and the impact of the development of Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), IDC predicts cloud computing and virtualization technology to be the long-term development directions for optimizing management overheads in the security software market. Automation and centralized management is the ‘paradise’ that organizations are looking for. A cloud-based security software will provide a real time protection to the information flows with broad user coverage as it just requires one single point for automated patches and thus quicker in terms of definitions generating and updating. Meanwhile, security software solutions in the virtualized environment have become the fundamental equipment amongst solution providers, as the highway to virtualized environment getting established and in a faster speed with the propagation of cloud computing." I definitely agree. What say you?
