Worried about your data? If you're not, you're kidding yourself. It's become clear over the past few months that the risk of security breaches has reached a new and frightening level — from sophisticated tools in the hands of national governments and organized crime to spontaneous attacks harnessing the resources of thousands of loosely connected vigilantes. Add to that the dizzying array of devices now used to access, move and store data. Security strategies that seemed airtight only a few years ago now look like so much Swiss cheese.
In this light, your first instinct might be to pull back from cloud computing, viewing it as inherentl y less secure than keeping data and applications locked into hardware. After all, the word "cloud" itself implies that your precious assets are out there floating around somewhere, right? It's an understandable reaction and one that couldn't be more wrong. In fact, the cloud is now the safest place for your data.
Think about it: Data is lost when an organization loses control over it, including how it's stored, how it's transmitted, and what end users do with it. Clouds, and the virtualization technologies on which they run, give you back that control, from data center to delivery to endpoint.
Deliver User Experiences, Not Vulnerable Data
A key tenet of security is making sure data doesn't go astray when it leaves the enterprise. But what if data never left the enterprise in the first place? Desktop virtualization means that all data, applications and state remain centralized; users can access an immersive experience indis tinguishable from traditional computing...
