As the prolific trend of adoption would suggest, the case for cloud is compelling from both a business and technology perspective. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the more compelling reasons from a technologist’s point of view has to do with the ability to abstract lower levels of the application stack. Depending on the model of cloud employed, varying amounts of the underlying technology components move out of the scope of your direct control and instead become substrate upon which your enterprise applications rest.
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Revisiting Risk Assessment in the Cloud
Posted by: Ed Moyle October 1, 2013 05:00 AMAs the prolific trend of adoption would suggest, the case for cloud is compelling from both a business and technology perspective. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the more compelling reasons from a technologist’s point of view has to do with the ability to abstract lower levels of the application stack. Depending on the model of cloud employed, varying amounts of the underlying technology components move out of the scope of your direct control and instead become substrate upon which your enterprise applications rest.