You know with all the hype and the jargon we sometimes lose sight of why everyone really does get excited over what the cloud can mean. I had a eureka moment today that reminded me. I was being briefed by a security vendor about a new survey they will be publishing next week. The results were very encouraging about people really starting to not only care about, but spend money around things like data loss, back up, disaster recovery, security, etc.
Leaving aside for the moment that these surveys always show that security and loss are “top of mind” with organizations, I realized something else. What a profound impact the cloud and mobile computing will have in this area.
Think about it. When you have people accessing data and applications not stored on their own personal computing device but via the cloud, do you need to worry about losing that data if your device is lost? If the data is in the cloud and not on the device, that takes all of that headache away. Same thing for back up and disaster recovery. If the data is in the cloud, redundancy and back up are part of the service. No brainer.
So the traditional locking up the endpoint, backing up the data functions are rendered moot. Talk about cloud security. This takes a good chunk of traditional security right out of the equation. That is only security. What about application administration? What about server infrastructure? In all of the marketing feeding frenzy are we forgetting what the real impact of cloud computing really is going to be?
It will drastically change the way we think about IT and how we all work. So yes it is over-hyped, but don’t lose sight of how big the cloud will really be.
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