Magazine:
State of security readiness
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. With this pay-as-you-go model of computing, cloud solutions are seen as having the potential to both dramatically reduce costs and increase the rapidity of development of applications.
State of security readiness
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Pointers
BBC News
See in particular the short video clip on Microsoft Azure
Jargon
infrastructure-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing
platform-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing
software-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing