{"id":2408,"date":"2012-06-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jun\/29\/public-or-private-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it\/"},"modified":"2012-06-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:00:00","slug":"public-or-private-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/public-or-private-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Public or private cloud, that is the question&#8230;or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You realise the overarching benefits of the cloud, but you are a bit wary regarding the security of any data stored and transacted in these virtualised environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the cost-saving benefits, user preference and resource delegation of the cloud are such that not integrating some processes, applications and data is counter-productive to your overall IT strategy.<\/p>\n<p>So you decide that a private cloud is a more secure route that its public counterpart. But are you really any more secure?<\/p>\n<p>The quick answer is no. But not for the reason you might think.<\/p>\n<p>A private cloud is infrastructure operated solely for a single organisation. The only difference is that your data is segregated from any other organisation. And if that brings you any semblance of peace, then it&rsquo;s a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>It all depends on your business need. It offers greater control, but means you shoulder all the overhead, updating &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You realise the overarching benefits of the cloud, but you are a bit wary regarding the security of any data stored and transacted in these virtualised environments.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut the cost-saving benefits, user preference and resource delegation of the clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}