In the view of our team here at ScaleUp, the Information Week article’s description of this as a “perceived barrier” is completely accurate. It is our responsibility to help our customers & prospects understand where the overblown hype about security stops & where real business, technology & policy decisions need to start about new cloud initiatives.

As a CEO of 10 year old internet4YOU, I have a lot of knowledge/experience about remote data center management. Comparing a traditional hosted solution (using either a shared infrastructure or a dedicated infrastructure in a remote datacenter) with a cloud hosting infrastructure hardly reveals major differences in the security that can be achieved. I would even go so far to say, that using a cloud hosting is NOT less secure.

When talking about cloud computing for enterprises, people always compare running an application on some internal server infrastructure within a company with a hosted solution in a remote infrastructure. It is always mentioned that moving your data outside of the company is a big security risk

However, I would not say that having your data within your company makes it more secure. Every company nowadays is connected to the internet. Employees use USB sticks, emails and third-party application on their workstation PCs. So why should your data be less secure when you move it into the cloud (in a professional datacenter).

In this multi-part ‘Security in the Cloud’ series we’ll dive deeper into a number of key security, privacy & access control topics. Stay tuned, or better yet subscribe to our RSS or Email subscription & we’ll make sure we keep you continue to receive these articles.