{"id":4088,"date":"2012-10-12T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/oct\/12\/securing-clouds-and-taking-educated-steps\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:53:21","slug":"securing-clouds-and-taking-educated-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/securing-clouds-and-taking-educated-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing clouds and taking educated steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\">The most common objections for holding back SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, as reported from end customers, are &lsquo;security&rsquo; and &lsquo;reliability&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">This is interesting when you consider that SaaS Security is consistently reported as the fastest growth area of SaaS. This &lsquo;security&rsquo; objection usually stems from the customers&rsquo; perspective; they are concerned about the security of their data held outside their perimeter by the cloud provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Yet despite these concerns there has been a thunderstorm of growing noise surrounding cloud computing in the past 24 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Vendors, analysts, journalists and membership groups have all rushed to cover the cloud medium, although everyone seems to have their own opinion and differing definition of cloud computing.&nbsp; Similar to many new sectors of technology, the key is to separate the truth from the hype before making educated decisions on the right time to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">While still evolving and changing, cloud computing is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most common objections for holding back SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, as reported from end customers, are &lsquo;security&rsquo; and &lsquo;reliability&rsquo;.<br \/>\nThis is interesting when you consider that SaaS Security is consistently report&#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-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}