Since, the launch of Cloud Computing it has been said that cloud is one of the most secure systems in world. Besides the majority of public cloud providers, offers an SLA of 99.99 %, it is been said that these controlled environments generally have far fewer security flaws than proprietary systems.
As they are in huge data centers distributed globally with employees focused on serving a wide range of clients, it requires security and monitoring the cutting edge, beyond the resources of fault tolerance, redundancy and automated actions.
Security patches can be applied more and very easily, protecting all clients, a change to HTTPS for example is a hard process and can leave the application between 200 and 300% slower. Google also has applied the above update in its Gmail for example instantaneously and without any loss of performance.
Another significant element is that as Cloud computing is becoming core technology, more and more security measures are being created to guarantee their reliability and performance. While admitting that not all cloud server hosting providers are as well prepared.
Also, it has been noticed that data centers focused on cloud computing generally face these types of issues of security and failover support better resolved than the firms with traditional architectures.
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This post was written by Admin on July 23, 2010
