Thursday, August 6, 2009

Blog: 5 lessons from the dark side of cloud computing

5 lessons from the dark side of cloud computing

InfoWorld: Robert Lemos CIO.com; August 6, 2009

While many companies are considering moving applications to the cloud, the security of the third-party services still leaves much to be desired, security experts warned attendees at last week's Black Hat Security Conference.

The current economic downturn has made cloud computing a hot issue, with startups and smaller firms rushing to save money using virtual machines on the Internet and larger firms pushing applications such as customer relationship management to the likes of Salesforce.com. Yet companies need to be more wary of the security pitfalls in moving their infrastructure to the cloud, experts say.

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