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With so much hype surrounding cloud computing these days, most of the enterprises are feeling the urgency of leveraging the cloud to gain business benefits. Enterprises expect to make good cost savings by opting cloud offerings, as they can avoid huge costs associated with buying and maintaining their own infrastructure. But, security and privacy concerns are holding back many in taking the cloud route. According to Gartner 64% of the organizations view privacy concerns as a criterion for exclusion when evaluating public cloud computing.
Though there are few security concerns with the cloud, it is not the right strategy for enterprises to completely write-off the adoption of the cloud, since it is evolving into a new computing era and is here to stay for a long-term. Early adopters of cloud are going to gain sustainable business benefits out of it. Hence, enterprises should leverage the cloud but should examine the security risks thoroughly. Before selecting a cloud service provider, enterprises must ensure that the vendor is transparent enough to meet the privacy requirements.
Involving a third-party independent security testing vendor to provide an assessment based on the cloud provider's infrastructure and services will bring in objectivity and expertise into the evaluation. It gives enterprises the confidence about the cloud software systems they are going to leverage, ensure that their coding process is standard, and once implemented whether the cloud provider will be able to manage it well through well established processes and qualified workforce.
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Cloud technologies such as infrastructure-as-a-service provide great promise for quality assurance professionals as a way to streamline provisioning of test environments and provide a low-cost alternative for performance testing. But despite consensus about the nature of the opportunity, commercial realization of the opportunity remains slowly paced.
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