Key cloud computing trends and enterprise security

August 12, 2013 Off By David
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Grazed from Help-Net-Security. Author: Mirko Zorz.

Dan C. Marinescu is the author of Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice. He was a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana from 1984 till 2001 when he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida.

In this interview, Marinescu outlines interesting a variety of interesting facts about cloud security, illustrates how the cloud has shaped enterprise security, and provides insight into key future trends. How has cloud computing shaped IT since it stopped being just a buzzword?…

There is little doubt that cloud computing has revolutionized our thinking about information processing and information storing; its impact on the activity of many organizations, large and small, as well as on individual application developers, is a proof of the economic benefits of the new paradigm. The very large number of applications running today on clouds show the appeal of virtualization, when users work in a familiar environment rather than being forced to operate in an idiosyncratic one…

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