Cloud Vs. Datacenter: Decoding The Security Trade-Offs
SC Media, Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
One of the first concepts that every student of economics learns about is trade-offs - if an IT department allocates more of its budget to cybersecurity, it may have less to spend on software development or hardware upgrades.
A decade ago, enterprise CIOs were weighing the economic and operational trade-offs of migrating certain resources and workloads to the cloud. Ultimately, a significant number of them decided that the agility and cost-savings provided by public cloud services made the trade-off worthwhile, as it would provide them with greater operational flexibility without having to crank up their capital expenditures.
Ten years on, the calculus of the cloud decision has shifted. Despite the rapid growth and broad adoption of the public cloud, many enterprise CIOs are beginning to reconsider their public cloud strategy.