Cloud computing security concerns ‘ridiculous’ says expert

Grazed from Experian.  Author: Philip Glass.

Government agencies worldwide should not be put off adopting cloud computing because of ‘unfounded’ security and privacy issues, according to the US first chief information officer.

Vivek Kundra said that such excuses are a "ridiculous" reason to not embrace the technology…

"Security and privacy … in some ways are very unfounded and ridiculous (reasons) because the US government has outsourced over 4,700 systems," Mr Kundra told attendees at a Salesforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco.

Using the US government as an example, he said that millions of dollars are spent each year on projects which never quite take off because an old IT model is being utilised rather than cloud computing.

He predicted that the coming years will see a major shift towards cloud computing among government agencies across the globe.

Businesses and government departments in New Zealand may be more confident using cloud computing once the country’s code of practice is instated in the coming months.