The cloud’s benefits – numerous flexible options, scale and elasticity – demand dropping pre-conceptions about security carried over from traditional data centers.
Moving information from enterprise data centers or in-network servers to a cloud environment is often chosen as a means to offload IT maintenance costs, provide a higher degree of physical safeguards and facilitate easier scaling to accommodate business growth.
The migration from analog to digital has been on the rise for several years and thanks to new computer technologies, video over IP is more prevalent today.
Eighty percent of SMBs in the U.S. say cloud computing contributes to business growth
May 1, 2014
Sixty percent of midsized business respondents said that turning to cloud computing made IT departments more productive, as IT personnel do not have to waste limited staff resources on managing service agreement licenses or upgrading computers with new software.
News headlines are filled with enough stories about compromised data security, potentially driving executives away from networked and cloud solutions and back to the proverbial days of stuffing cash in a mattress.
More organizations are looking to move out of their data centers and private cloud environments and into the dynamic world of public and hybrid cloud architectures.
Authenticating users and securely communicating authorization information with a cloud application – or any Web-based portal – requires a common endpoint acting as the enterprise IdP.