Today there are hundreds of technologies that solve varied security and management problems, and new solutions are introduced daily to solve problems that have yet to be discovered. IT security and
...Read MoreToday there are hundreds of technologies that solve varied security and management problems, and new solutions are introduced daily to solve problems that have yet to be discovered. IT security and operations are drowning in this cycle of evaluating new products and vendors, performing the R&D to select the right product, purchasing this product, and integrating it with all of the other security technologies. Most companies remain insecure, not because they lack great technology but because they lack the time and money to deploy and manage it.
Enter the cloud. Instead of a business permanently hosting their own servers and applications, they can consume these IT services as needed from the cloud. Doing so lowers costs, reduces the total server count needed, ensures the latest software version is running, and automatically rebalances workload as usage ebbs and flows.