I recently got an opportunity to attend a TiE event “TiE Cloud: Breakthroughs in Cloud Security” in Silicon Valley on 2^nd Feb. This conference was hosted by Mr. Allwyn Sequeira, CTO & VP, Cloud Networking & Security, VMware and Mr. Pradip Shankar, Vice-President, Ericsson.

In many of the presentations and discussion forums in this event, looking at the questions and interest from the attendees, many of them emphasized on how to best set-up their cloud infrastructure securely. Cloud security continues to be a major concern for enterprises, in fact many of the CIOs expressed that they have no immediate plans to migrate to private cloud concerned by its complexity, security issues and fear of losing control over their data and privacy. (more…)