The security benefits of enterprise IaaS clouds

Grazed from PeakColo.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Enterprise-class cloud computing offers many benefits to its adopters, and its overall value rests in its ability to offer innovative solutions to myriad business issues. One of a company’s primary concerns is its security, but there are many ways in which enterprise clouds provide overarching solutions to potential security vulnerabilities. Inherent in the design of enterprise IaaS clouds is a prominent focus on maintaining a protected infrastructure. This is an especially salient concern of many IT professionals and CIOs, who still debate the merits and hindrances of security in the cloud, wrote Computerworld’s Steve Pate. In addressing cloud security, Pate considered the perspectives of businesses and cloud service providers.

Pate wrote that the security concerns of smaller organizations in particular  frequently stem from their lack of an in-house security team, and so they often have the most to gain by investing in the services of an IaaS cloud provider…

Smaller businesses, wrote Pate, "have not yet made investments into building out large datacenters, or their IT staff. They are often growing quickly and need to spin up their IT services in kind. Also, smaller organizations typically have less bureaucracy, and fewer people saying ‘Well, that’s not the way we’ve always done it.’ This makes IaaS an easy choice, and perhaps, even a godsend. Simply spin up servers when they are needed, and pay for services as you go (and grow)."…

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