Secure cloud computing: Where the reseller fits
June 7, 2013
Grazed from TechDay. Author: Heather Wright.
With cloud computing’s paradigm of shared infrastructure, DDoS attacks on a specific target can quickly affect many or all tenants. Nick Race, Arbor Networks New Zealand country manager for Arbor Networks explains why availability should be the top priority, and how resellers can help customers prevent and mitigate these attacks.
The growing popularity of the cloud computing model has been accompanied by a great deal of discussion, and some concrete action, regarding security concerns related to the use of computing, storage, networking and services infrastructure which, by definition, is shared among multiple end customers…
While the classic siloed, single-tenant server model quite often involves the use of shared networking and ancillary services infrastructure, such as DNS, bringing together the application logic and proprietary data of multiple organisations on the same computing/networking/storage substrate has highlighted these concerns, and brought them to the forefront for many IT professionals and executives worldwide…
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