Welcome to my first post on the new Accenture BlogPodium!
If you are a returning reader of my blog, you might have noticed that my blog is now in the Technology theme, rather than the RFID theme. I’m happy about this, because my day to day job is more about Technology and Architecture than about RFID. So let me take advantage of being part of a broader theme, and re-publish an internal article that I wrote earlier this year. Enjoy reading!
Cloud Computing is hot: “Cloud Computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business”.
It might sound very simple: Instead of maintaining your own applications, platforms and servers, you obtain them as a service from outside your own organization, so you don’t have to care about maintenance, performance, scalability, software upgrades and uptime anymore. But is that all? No, there’s more.
According to a recently published research (see this survey and risk assessment) by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Confidentiality of corporate data and Privacy are the number 1 and 2 main concerns (and showstoppers) for companies who are on a journey of implementing Cloud Computing.
This article addresses Cloud Computing from a Security and Privacy perspective and introduces a four step approach to overcome cold feed for Cloud Computing.
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