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It is a common misconception that by moving to the Cloud , businesses are relinquishing all control of their data. Generally speaking, many companies fail to take the time to fully understand Cloud computing and in this vein, feel reluctant to outsource business-critical data to the Cloud.  

We've all heard the horror stories about cloud outages in high profile data centres run by the likes of Microsoft and Amazon. Be that as it may we need to keep these things in perspective. The fact is, when it comes to reliability and most importantly availability, it's highly unlikely that your systems and data could be better managed and supported within the on premise environments that most businesses trust their important computing assets when compared to the cloud.

Power outages such as those experienced by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft in recent months are not only hugely embarrassing for the cloud giants, but also incredibly disruptive for the affected users.

Power outages such as those experienced by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft in recent months are not only hugely embarrassing for the Cloud giants, but also incredibly disruptive for the affected users.

Another conference last week, the Westminster eForum on cloud computing had vendors and delegates discussing security within the cloud. Computer Weekly reported that ISC2 said security professionals must embrace cloud or fail. It quotes one of the eForum speakers saying that the business case is overwhelming, referring to the reduced cost, rapid provisioning, scalability and flexibility of cloud computing, adding that security professionals need to work out how their organisation can use the cloud securely with minimum risk.