{"id":9028,"date":"2015-05-28T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2015-05-28T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:59:59","slug":"security-remains-a-major-issue-in-cloud-adoption-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/05\/28\/security-remains-a-major-issue-in-cloud-adoption-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Security remains a major issue in cloud adoption, experts stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

SINGAPORE \u2013 Industry practitioners and experts here in NetEvent\u2019s 2015 APAC Press & Service Provider VIP Summit<\/em> agree that security remains a major issue in the adoption of cloud by enterprises.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cloud adoption continues to increase. IDC, for instance, reported that 80% of US companies are at least considering investing in cloud, and that 34% of businesses expect to increase cloud spending in the next 24 months. In fact, by 2018, business expenditures in IT \u2013 including cloud \u2013 is expected to reach $122 billion. Specifically related to cloud, today, 31.4% use external cloud; and in 24 months, this is expected to increase to over 40%.<\/p>\n

Also, based on the data culled by Current Analysis<\/em>, more than half (66%) of enterprises already currently use cloud services, with 58% of these enterprises using private cloud, 28% using hybrid, and the rest using public cloud. And among these cloud-users, almost half (44%) consider security as the main concern.<\/p>\n

According to Dan Pitt, executive director of Open Networking Foundation, simply put, for many enterprises that turn to cloud, \u201chybrid is the goal, and security is the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concern for security is understandable, said Amit Sinha Roy, vice president at TATA Communications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the amount and the nature of information that we\u2019re putting out, the layers of security required also increases,\u201d Roy said. \u201cStarting from who can access (the information put out), how they access (the information), to who can download the information, how it\u2019s stored\u2026 And while there are standards that are there, as we keep increasing the (data), the concerns over security will only increase.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, companies offering cloud-related services are offering security-specific services. Verizon, for instance, offers backend security services wherein \u201cwe work with customers if they select us, check their networks (for them), and report to them (security-related) incidences that they aren\u2019t even aware of,\u201d said Chris Rezentes, regional manager for partner and product strategy in Asia Pacific of Verizon. \u201cWill we reach that point where we won\u2019t worry about (security)? I\u2019d say we\u2019re a long way from that. But we keep improving in that level.\u201d<\/p>\n

For its part, Wedge Networks created, and offers a virtual product, \u201cand what it can do is take data streams, \u2018tear\u2019 it apart, and then do whatever action a customer wants with the data,\u201d said Steve Chappell, the company\u2019s executive VP for sales and marketing\/COO. Things do not work the way they did in the past anymore, \u201cso we\u2019re changing the way people deal with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, TATA Communications offers new network services that evolve beyond today\u2019s common WAN technologies, such as with its new IZO Platform, a cloud enablement platform to provide performance for cloud applications and services, and which makes use of the growth into each other of private carrier networks and the public Internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore awareness is needed on the security side,\u201d Rezentes said. \u201cBut companies should be willing to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The need to closely look into investing here as the cloud becomes ubiquitous was similarly stressed by Roy. \u201cThere is no getting away from cloud,\u201d Roy ended.<\/p>\n

Established in 1996, NetEvents organizes communication channels between press, analysts, equipment manufacturers, software companies, telecoms operators, datacenter\/hosting companies, system integrators, IT channel partners and industry associations in the networking and telecoms marketplace. Its events include press and analyst summits; service provider summits; channel summits; and innovation summit.<\/p>\n

Cloud adoption and the accompanying challenges were highlighted at NetEvent\u2019s 2015 APAC Press & Service Provider VIP Summit in Singapore
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