VMware: Cloud security is not a barrier to cloud computing

"Article summary" Many companies in the cloud in front of the hesitant, most people think it is because of cloud security issues, but VMware President Tod Nielsen does not think so, he believes that the restrictions on cloud computing recognition is not the technology and security factors, but people and processes.

Cloud computing is raging, but "safe" is a stumbling block to many companies ' cloud roads, whether it is a cloud service provider or a user, have tasted the bitter fruit of the cloud on the road, even Google, Amazon and Microsoft, such as the International It giants, in the face of cloud computing "security" is also a bit helpless, The recently known Amazon downtime can be seen.

Many companies are hesitant about cloud computing, and most people think it is because of cloud security, but VMware President Tod Nielsen does not think that limiting the recognition of cloud computing is not a technical and security factor, but a human and a process.

VMware President Tod Nielsen said in the 2011 VMware Forum: "The factors that affect the enterprise to accept cloud computing are technical issues, which is meaningless, and the biggest obstacle is human and process issues." ”

"People always ask questions about security and data privacy. But when you are really at the heart of the problem, you will find that the core of the problem is the trust between people, and people from different departments always want to control the data they own. Nielsen said.

Nielsen said the government's initiative, the government cloud is a good example, "the government cloud barrier is not a vision and technology, only government departments to give up control of their own, it is possible to build a shared pool of resources." Nielsen added.

A recent survey shows that most cloud computing service providers allocate up to 10% of IT resources to address security issues. A report from the Ponemon Research Institute at CA Technologies shows that cloud service providers are more concerned with the value of interactions, such as reducing costs and speeding deployment.

Nielson said that even if the company has achieved 100% virtualization, he does not believe that these companies will put their entire business into the public cloud.

"Now, the average enterprise can put 30% of the company's workload into the cloud, but most enterprises still deploy their own private cloud." They will put simple applications such as SaaS and some common stock disasters into the cloud, such as development, testing, and simple applications, but not the day when all loads are migrated clouds. "Now every CIO is talking about their strategy of mixing clouds," Nielson said. ”

Future technical services will focus more on end customers, as is the case with the ipad as a good post-PC era.

The client user experience and requirements drive the recent strategic acquisitions of VMware, such as the socialcast of the corporate microblogging platform and the acquisition of online display software providers sliderocket and open source mail and collaboration platform Zimbra.

"We're not sure what the new desktop will look like in the future, but it must include social, collaborative, and presentation aspects." "Whatever the device, it will focus on how to interact with applications, data, and so on," Nielsen added. ”

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