When you wish upon a cloud: 3 cloud hopes for 2015

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

It’s that time of year again, as PR people reach out to tell me about their client’s 2015 cloud computing predictions. Are you sitting down? Most revolve around whatever technology they sell. Shocker, right? I figured I would take a different approach. Here are three cloud computing predictions for 2015 that have no chance of coming true, though they should.

1. Enterprises finally get a good grasp on cloud computing security

Everyone is interested in security, but they all figure it doesn’t really work in the cloud — yet no one in enterprise IT can tell me why. The fact of the matter is that most enterprise IT folks don’t have a good understanding of what it means to build a secure cloud, so they default to the “cloud computing is unsecure” reaction…

The cloud is as secure as you make it — in the same way your enterprise systems are as secure as you make them. Ask Sony Pictures or the other big companies that saw their names splashed across headlines this year, as well as those that flew under the radar. None of the big-name hacks were due to cloud security issues; my guess is the unreported hacks took advantage of enterprise systems’ security issues as well…

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