Why Security Concerns Should Not Deter Journey to Cloud

Great article about security concerns and the journey to the cloud from David Hunter (VMware's CTO of Platform Security.)

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Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the hand-wringing about perceived cloud computing security shortcomings, a deeper look yields a great irony: a mature cloud architecture is actually more, not less, secure than traditional IT environments.

With the volume of data in the cloud expected to grow more than 50 percent over the next 18 months, not to mention the ever-expanding array of devices in user's hands, IT executives understandably fear they will lose a measure of control. For companies that rely on public cloud services, the fears are even more pronounced. And without a well-thought out set of governance, risk and compliance measures for the cloud, a company's fears could certainly become reality.

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The Important Role of Virtualization in Securing the Cloud

By virtualizing your company’s infrastructure, IT admins can also create trust zones around information, applications and endpoints that can be adapted to follow workloads through the cloud. Automated policies can then assess risk and immediately initiate remediation with security problems arise.

In short, virtualization enables organizations to have greater control and better visibility into their infrastructure, simplifying security management for the cloud.

http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2011/11/the-important-role-of-virtualization-in-securing-the-cloud.html