Cloud

Taking shelter in the cloud

Security concerns once held back enterprise adoption of cloud services. Now, they’re driving organisations to the cloud.

06 January 2014

Vendors and service providers have often cited concerns about information security as a major obstacle to cloud adoption in South Africa.

“Organisations see using the cloud as losing control of their data,” says EOH Cloud Services director Richard Vester. But that picture is starting to change as enterprises begin to take a more nuanced view of what it means to move to the cloud and as they grapple with a range of new security challenges in a more connected and heavily regulated environment.

With organisations facing a growing list of regulations and laws such as the Payment Card Industry standard and the Protection of Personal Information Act, many are now looking towards hosting applications and data in a service provider’s secure environment to better protect their data, says Sean Nourse, executive for connectivity at Internet Solutions.

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