Cloud
Computing Security Risks Outweigh Benefits: Survey,
Despite
the hype, nearly half of IT professionals in the US say the risk of cloud computing
eclipses the perceived benefits, according to a recent survey from
the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
The
first annual survey revealed that more than 45 percent of respondents feel the
risks of cloud computing outweigh the lower total cost of ownership (TCO), high
return on investment (ROI), increased efficiency and pay-as-you-go services.
Thirty-eight percent of respondents, however, indicated that the risks and
benefits of cloud computing
are equally balanced, while only 17 percent said
the benefits achieved with cloud computing
outweigh the risks.
The survey
exposes the fear associated with cloud computing
even as cloud computing
services are expected to experience dramatic growth, hitting $44.2 billion by
2013, outpacing traditional IT spending. Other estimates, including a recent
study by Global Industry Analysts, indicate that by 2015 cloud computing
services could represent a more than $200 billion market opportunity.
Despite
the rapid growth and the benefits, IT professionals are apprehensive about
moving data into the cloud, according to the ISACA's survey of 1,809 US IT
professionals, all of which are members of ISACA.
According
to the 2010 ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer, only 10 percent of respondents'
organizations plan to use cloud computing for mission critical IT services and
26 percent do not plan to use it at all. Meanwhile, 15 percent said they plan
to limit cloud computing to low-risk or non-mission-critical IT services and 18
percent have yet to formalize their cloud computing plans.
"The
cloud represents a major change in how computing resources will be utilized, so
it's not surprising that IT professionals have concerns about risk vs reward
trade-offs," said Robert Stroud, International Vice President, ISACA and
Vice President, IT Service Management and Governance, Service Management
Business Unit, CA Inc, in a statement. "But risk and value are two sides
of the same coin. If cloud computing is treated as a major governance
initiative involving a broad set of stakeholders, it has the potential to yield
benefits that can equal or outweigh the risks."
By
Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb
Cloud computing is here. Running applications on machines in an Internet-accessible data center
can bring plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built
on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, this platform usually
includes an operating system, some way to store data, and perhaps more.
Applications running in the cloud need a similar foundation. The goal of
Microsoft’s Windows Azure is to provide this. Part of the larger Azure Services
Platform, Windows Azure is a platform for running Windows applications and
storing data in the cloud.
cloud computing is a style
of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are
provided as a service over the Internet. To deploy a new solution, most of your
time and energy is spent on defining the right infrastructure, hardware and
software, to put together to create that solution, cloud computing allows
people to share resources to solve new problems. cloud computing users can
avoid capital expenditure (CapEx) on hardware, software, and services when they
pay a provider only for what they use.
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