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Way back in the 18th century, Ben Franklin said, “Distrust and caution are the parents of security.” That insight is entirely appropriate in the 21st century as companies deliberately and thoughtfully seek to take advantage of the tremendous economic benefits of cloud computing. Migration to the cloud is exploding, and the recent Cisco Global Cloud Index projects that by 2019, four out of five data center workloads will be processed in the cloud and more than 83 percent of global data center traffic will come from cloud services and applications. That’s three short years away, and it makes Joe Weinman’s prediction that, “Ultimately, the cloud is the latest example of Schumpeterian creative destruction: creating wealth for those who exploit it; and leading to the demise of those that don’t,” a business imperative for strategically concerned companies today.

While the benefits of the cloud are profound, security continues to be a significant concern and impediment to wholesale and universal deployment of cloud services for most companies. Caution and an eyes-wide-open posture are more important than ever as organizations are being transformed and changing the way they interact, operate, and compete in the business environment.

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