On 04/04/2012 02:39 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Leland Jackson<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, if all activity in the cloud is local, it can exist totally within >> a local network, safe and secure behind a firewall, but if users must >> access it remotely, the in house cloud can still be redundant, safe, and >> secure. > ---------------------- > > Cloud != " but if users must access it remotely," > > The cloud allows you to scale quickly and easily as needed and then > back down to reduce costs. > > Once you own the machines your in it 100%. There is no savings of cost. > > What do you think the cloud is? > >
The cloud is a movement of what had previously been done within an organization's IT department to an outside third party. The clould claims to better utilize resouces by virtulazation of operating systems across computers and internet infrastructure including standardized APIs. It also includes offering applications as a paid service. The cloud doesn't provide anything that an organization couldn't do, or you an I couldn't do for that matter. The cloud claim to be a safer and more secure than providing the service in house, but the clould, by its very nature of being an off site third party operation, has its own set of security issues. For one thing, no one has more respect and motive to care and protect its information, than the owner of the information. LOL #------------------------------------ Excerpt: The relative security of cloud computing services is a contentious issue that may be delaying its adoption.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#cite_note-60> Physical control of the Private Cloud equipment is more secure than having the equipment off site and under someone else's control. Physical control and the ability to visually inspect the data links and access ports is required in order to ensure data links are not compromised. Issues barring the adoption of cloud computing are due in large part to the private and public sectors' unease surrounding the external management of security-based services. It is the very nature of cloud computing-based services, private or public, that promote external management of provided services. This delivers great incentive to cloud computing service providers to prioritize building and maintaining strong management of secure services.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#cite_note-61> Security issues have been categorized into sensitive data access, data segregation, privacy, bug exploitation, recovery, accountability, malicious insiders, management console security, account control, and multiple tenancy issues. Solutions to various cloud security issues vary, from cryptography, particularly public key infrastructure (PKI), to use of multiple cloud providers, standardization of APIs, and improving virtual machine support and legal support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing #---------------------------------------- Regards, LelandJ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
