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2012 in Cloud Computing - Expect More Consumerization and More Security Concerns

A Contributed article by Tom Kemp, President and CEO of Centrify Corporation

Many IT folks and virtualization and cloud vendors see cloud computing as a logical extension of virtualization technologies, and rightly so. But I have a extension of the "consumerization" of Information Technology ("IT") trend that has been sweeping through organizations and corporate IT departments vis the cloud is: Expect more of that same mentality shaping the cloud.

Let me drill down on that a bit. When most people think of the consumerization of IT happening in organizations, they think of end users bringing into w connecting them to the corporate network. This Bring Your Own Device ("BYOD") phenomenon is definitely widespread as one looks around today's con been there for many years even before iPads and Android devices were being brought into the workplace. End users and departments for years now hav deployments of Dropbox, Salesforce.com, etc. And these same users and departments are also BYO-ing Servers ("BYOS") by independently spinning up with virtualization being an enabling technology to make that happen.

They did this BYO-ing because it was cheaper and easier to spin up new apps and servers in the cloud, and they got more functionality, and they were n and timelines. The end result is that we are seeing a shift from IT assets inside the firewall to IT assets migrating outside the firewall. And in the future off-premise resources.

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Historically, IT departments provided company-owned desktops and laptops operating inside the company and the corporate firewall, or via secured VPN accessing IT resources from outside the firewall from their own computers, smart phones and tablets.

Similarly, historically an organization's IT department has selected, operated and controlled applications inside the corporate firewall. And these applicat servers that were also managed, secured and controlled by IT. But now with BYOA, users and departments are subscribing to their own applications out Google Analytics, etc. And if they need servers to build custom applications, some users and departments are turning to BYOS by spinning up servers ru control.

Furthermore, besides altering the economics of enterprise IT by shifting IT assets from inside the firewall to outside the firewall, this consumerization tre Historically IT has primarily been about automating the white collar worker's desk circa 1970 (think of the classic "inbox" and "outbox" on a white collar typewriters being replaced by PCs running Microsoft Office, etc.). But now with the consumerization/BYO phenomena, IT services are further expanding services are out in the cloud. For example, many users that historically may not have had computing devices (e.g. nurses, retail sales, etc.) are now be productivities.

The net net is this consumerization/BYO trend is altering the economics of enterprise IT by shifting IT assets from inside outside the firewall to the cloud security challenges that are emerging. That is my second prediction for 2012 vis-a-vis cloud computing: Expect more security challenges.

Clearly while costs may be lowered and productivity increased by BYO-ing new devices, applications and servers, the potential downside of lack of visibil premise IT assets may negate some of the cost savings and slow adoption. For example, to address auditors' needs and make sure proprietary informat have end-to-end visibility and control over users, applications, servers and devices to ensure the business is protected while being agile enough to respo involved securing and locking down on-premise devices, servers and applications. Now the same type of security capabilities must apply to IT resources by IT departments. That's a nut that needs to be cracked.

This also means we have a password problem that is getting worse as usage of the cloud expands. More users are getting access to more cloud-based s Users are facing a huge burden of password management, and we are seeing a marked increase in hacking and identity theft. So clearly more effort ne may see even more Anonymous and Lulzsec type hacking incidents.

We live in exciting times with the huge growth of virtualization and cloud technology. We have whet the whistle of end users in terms of what they can g within our organizations will be acting like consumers and pushing for even more cloud-based services or walking them through the side door. And we n we have adequate security and visibility over those same cloud-based services.

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About the Author

Tom Kemp is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation (http://www.centrify.com), a leading provider of enterprise security software solutions for Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Tom was also one of the first employees and a founding team memb his career at Oracle Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan. You can follo or follow his Centrify blog at http://www.centrify.com/blogs/overview.asp or his Forbes blog at http://blogs.forbes.com/tomkemp.

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