CSA Guide to Cloud Computing Implementing Cloud Privacy and Security

oud computing is truly ubiquitous and its growing list of benefits provides an explanation as to why; Particularly by providing customers the opportunity to focus on their core business while the difficult task of buying and managing the technology is done by somebody else. Add to this the ability to pay for only the service when needed and without the added burden of large operational expenditure, then we can see why cloud computing is not only a hot topic but also a fundamental shift in the way organizations work today with technology. In his book entitled ”˜Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution1’, author Steven Levy wrote about many of the pioneers of modern computing, in particular, those students based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These pioneers “harbored the kind of restless curiosity which led them to root around campus buildings in search of ways to get their hands on computers.” These individuals were members of a model railroad club (known as the Tech Model Railroad Club, TMRC). “There were two factions of TMRC. Some members loved the idea of spending their time building and painting replicas of certain trains with historical and emotional value, or creating realistic scenery for the layout. The other faction centered on the Signals and Power Subcommittee of the club, and it cared far more about what went on under the layout. S&P people were obsessed with the way The System worked, its increasing complexities, how any change you made would affect other parts, and how you could put those relationships between the parts to optimal use.”