Organizations and their CIOs are going the cloud and virtulization path. I am a strong proponent of that approach. A recent IDC report really excited me as it mentioned:
- 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.
