Cloud computing and security posted 21 December 2009 | Richard Chow    view bio

You can’t avoid the cloud computing topic these days. As usual, the extreme viewpoints are the most visible — cloud computing is either marketing hype, or game-changing. If you turn to security experts, it’s either “nothing new” or a “focal point”. While there’s some truth in each viewpoint, it’s a little hard to untangle what’s really going on. An oft-quoted survey from IDC reports security is the biggest concern with cloud computing. We did our own series of interviews with different members of the cloud ecosystem, and asked them to identify the security/privacy issues and the concerns of their customers.

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