The security systems of businesses must “evolve” as they move from virtualised data centres towards private cloud infrastructures, according to analysts at Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of the security controls used within enterprise data centres will be virtualised, up from less than five percent in 2010.
“For most organisations, virtualisation will provide the foundation and the stepping-stone for the evolution to private cloud computing,” said Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman. “However, the need for security must not be overlooked or ‘bolted on’ later during the transition to private cloud computing.”
Bittman said “significant changes” will be required in how security is delivered. Whether supporting private cloud computing, public cloud computing, or both, security must become “adaptive” to support a model where workloads are “decoupled” from the physical hardware underneath, and “dynamically allocated to a fabric of computing resources”, he said.
Continues at: Gartner: Companies need shift in private cloud security.
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