IT Consultants in Boston, do you agree that moving to Cloud is considered by some as Mission Impossible? What’s really holding companies back from moving to the Cloud?

According to an article in NetworkWorld, hesitation seems to focus mostly on security issues.

Someday, cloud security vendors and cloud services providers will convince enterprise IT that it’s safe to move sensitive data and mission critical apps from the private cloud to the public cloud.

Cloud security vendors and cloud services providers have a long way to go before customers will be able to find a comfort zone in the public cloud.

According to Beth Cohen, senior cloud architect with Cloud Technology Partners, most Security providers aren’t sharing enough information about security deep down in the stack on an ongoing basis to satisfy enterprise customers. Cohen thinks it is unlikely that the industry will see much of an improvement in this area because “most cloud vendors aren’t likely to give away the store.”

Simon Crosby, former Citrix CTO and founder of Bromium, had this to say; “If you told me to go build a secure application, that would run 24 by 7 worldwide and wasn’t at risk for data theft I would build something like Netflix, which runs in Amazon’s public cloud. There are 30 billion objects in that store. Go ahead and try to find my stuff in there. And it’s so distributed that it can withstand massive DDoS attacks from all sorts of anonymous sources. Yeah, I’d build it in the public cloud. And I wouldn’t lose any data.”

Here are just a few of the security concerns mentioned in the article:

• Concerns about securing the communications channels within multi-tenant virtual networks.

• Uncertainty about how the exploding number of heterogeneous mobile devices will be securely supported in the cloud.

• An inconsistent path for extending existing identity and access control mechanisms used in the enterprise up into the cloud.

• Questions on how trusted encryption and tokenization models need to be changed to adequately protect sensitive data stored in the public cloud.

Have you moved to the cloud yet? Are you waiting to see how others pioneer this new world and wait to see what’s best for your business.

If you would like to read more of the Networkworld article, just click here.