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The Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft Middle East and
Africa, Antony Cook, who dwelt on Cloud Computing: Privacy and Security,
asserting that trust is the key to cloud services, at an event in Lagos,
reports ITRealms.
And for Cook, the numbers matters so much, stating that
mobility checks has seen 1.1 billion global smartphone subscribers, yet 5
billion non-smartphone users still exist globally.
Cook also said that on mobility, there are over a billion
users, Facebook users are now in the hands of 680 million mobile, just as 175
million tweets are generated daily.
On the big data, Cook pointed out that there was 2.4 billion
global internet users in 2012, whereas total amount of digital information in
the world is increasing 10x every 5 years, with the Cloud being the enabling
force for all these trends.
Thus, for Cook, clouds come in different shapes, namely the
public, private and public cum private clouds.
For the public clouds, Cook said this manages data centers
by service provides within agile, cost effective and scalable.
Private clouds, the counsel said is on-premises or hosted by
a third party which could be more secured, more customizable, greater control
and more overhead.
Accordingly, the AGM at Microsoft says that public and
private clouds has reputed for optimal mix of cost and control, while agile,
scalable, more secure and cost effectiveness could be outlined as seeming
advantages.
Some key benefits of the cloud include cost savings,
security and performance.
Precisely, Antony said that for the cost savings, cloud
services provide cost savings without compromising on quality.
On the security benefit, Antony said experience and scale
enabled cloud service providers are known to offer more robust security.
Even as the performance gains involve cloud services which
enable customers to innovate and operate at a faster pace.
However, across security, privacy and compliance, he pointed
out that trust is key, stressing that people would like to know how safe are
their data in the cloud, where will my data be stored and who can access it
for hat purposes, whilst on compliance,
customers will like to know if the cloud will increase their regulatory risk?
