How Next-Generation Security Is Redefining The Cloud
July 14, 2014
Grazed from DarkReading. Author: Bill Kleyman.
Your cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure all contain flexible and agile components. Your security model should be the same. Cloud computing has become a much more defined platform. There are more use cases, and many more organizations are actively looking at cloud models today than ever before. We have better infrastructure, more resources, and a much more connected user. All of this is fueling tremendous growth in cloud adoption. For example, the latest Cisco Global Cloud Index report predicts that:
- Annual global cloud IP traffic will reach 5.3 zettabytes by the end of 2017. By 2017, global cloud IP traffic will reach 443 exabytes per month (up from 98 exabytes per month in 2012).
- Global cloud IP traffic will increase nearly 4.5-fold over the next five years. Overall, cloud IP traffic will grow at a CAGR of 35 percent from 2012 to 2017.
- Global cloud IP traffic will account for more than two-thirds of total datacenter traffic by 2017…
This type of growth is driving cloud providers to offer new types of solutions, new ways to distribute data, and even better ways to compute. However, just like any technology that becomes a lot more popular, security concerns are also growing as data traverses the WAN and becomes much more accessible to malicious attacks…
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