The security facet: Public cloud vs private cloud

Grazed from CIOL. Author: Sunija Rishi.

As per Gartner, cloud-based security services market will be worth $4.2 billion by 2016, as companies seek out new ways to deliver low cost security offerings. Public and private clouds are interesting cloud sub domains to know about and yes the security aspect can not be ignored.

Public vs Private Cloud

A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. Yet, another feature of public cloud is that, it is available to all and believes in agility…

You can catch up with your work any time you wish and from any corner of the globe. The customer has no visibility and control over where the cloud services are being hosted. The core infrastructure is shared between many organizations, but each organization’s data and application usage is logically segregated so only authorized users are allowed access. Public cloud service is appealing to many decision-makers as it reduces complexity and long lead times in testing and deploying new applications…

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