Slow uptake in cloud computing services
Although several cloud computing based solutions are now available to businesses worldwide the uptake has been slower than expected due to security concerns IBM recently revealed.
Companies are primarily concerned that sensitive data shared and hosted ‘through the cloud’ will not be handled correctly and could potentially slip into the hands of third parties or direct competition.
What is cloud computing?
Conceptually cloud computing represents a paradigm shift whereby the user can access hosted information and applications through the cloud using an internet connection. This allows for greater mobility and removes the need for users to keep information on their personal computers.
Although a measure of this has been achieved and adopted through virtualisation and virtual private networks (VPNs), the cloud computing ideal, whereby the user would access and use an entire operating system over an internet connection, is still some way away.
Security not an issue
Despite the improvement in corporate cloud computing services businesses are still cautious about adopting them, citing data security issues as the main obstacle.
Chief Technology Officer for Information Management at IBM, Anant Jhingran believes that these concerns are generally unfounded.
“Almost every CIO knows that they’re operations are not as bullet proof as they’d like to believe. IBM has made it a business of protecting other people’s data. The financial industry has now become quite used to cloud delivered services. Healthcare is also growing,” said Jhingran,
For this reason Jhingran added that Chief Technology Officers and IT executives in large corporations should be confident that critical business data is safe when hosted in the cloud.
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