Companies may focus more on security in cloud computing services in 2014

Grazed from Seagate. Author: Editorial Staff.

Organizations may seek more security from cloud storage solutions in 2014, due to concerns about surveillance and breaches. Features such as data encryption and hosting located in specific countries may become increasingly desirable. On top of that, companies will continue to seek secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and storage solutions that are appealing enough to discourage employees from relying on unsafe consume alternatives.

In an article for Computerworld, Jaikumar Vijayan predicted that 2014 would bring encryption to the forefront of cloud computing services. For example, vendors such as Microsoft and Google are already at work on encrypting data in transit and at rest. Google’s cloud encrypts data before it is recorded to storage. Microsoft’s cloud-based Outlook.com(cap?) email service, as well as its Office 365 and Windows Azure products, are also being ugpraded with new encryption features, including 2048-bit keys and Perfect Forward Secrecy in some cases…

Moreover, some enterprises are opting to increase spending on on-premises solutions in order to avoid putting data at risk in the public cloud. Forrester Research analyst Andrew Bartels predicted that the market for on-premises software would expand up to six percent in 2014. Still, investment in cloud technologies may grow by more than 20 percent this year, according to Forrester projections…

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