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Is cloud computing secure?

Is cloud computing secure?© piqs.de/roger

Cloud computing is one of the most important cornerstones of the digital transformation of business processes. An expert comment by Stefan Gschröfl, Cloud Computing Development T-Systems Austria. The cloud is a cost-efficient and simple variant mainly for the above 99 percent KMU in Austria, to operate a performing and consistent IT infrastructure.

Thereby, mainly two aspects have a very high importance. The responsible handling of data with regard to security and favourable services and service performances for the running operation. Cloud is one of the central pillars and simultaneously the motor of digitisation. Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, M2M or big data analytics can now be represented with the virtually endlessly scalable technology, available always and in any place.
Businesses have long recognised the importance of cloud computing for the digital transformation . Thus, according to a current IDG study (Cloud Insights 2016), already more than half of the businesses in the EU (58,3%) use cloud services. A further quarter (23.3%) still wants to enter in 2016. However, reservations exist about cloud computing. Security considerations, uncleared legal queries and data protection topics are mentioned as the largest hindrances.

Cloud lives on the choice of the right solution partner
Considering the security of cloud services, the aspirations are indeed high. Thus, the demands of a cloud security concept can usually only be reviewed by a provider who has a long-term experience in cloud computing and follows an end to end approach. This reaches from the desktop of the customer via the own performance up to the cloud service.
A strong partner helps businesses to analyse chances as well as risks of cloud services. The right partner also ensures that customers comply with data protection laws, specifications of tax offices and auditing requirements with the transformation to the cloud. He can tell his customer exactly in which country and computer centre their data are are kept, - something, which is not the rule with the American cloud providers such as Amazon or Microsoft.

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