CONVERGENCE OF CLOUD, VIRTUALIZATION AND DATA PROTECTION

Prof. Vishal Bharti HOD CSE attended an online event on “Convergence of Cloud, Virtualization and Data Protection” hosted by IT giant Evault on 15th January 2014. The event was all about Cloud and virtualization technologies which have changed IT profoundly in recent years, having an enormous impact on the top consideration in IT today: data protection. But despite some obvious points of intersection, these technologies remain surprisingly separate from each other in many IT departments. However, with an explosion in data to manage – that will only grow more rapidly in the future and with operating expenses constantly under the microscope, companies are looking at how and where the cloud, virtualization and disaster recovery can intersect. Issues remain, particularly with data security in the cloud, but the right strategy can successfully bring together virtualization and data protection in the cloud to reduce operating expenses and manage massive data growth.

In this presenters discussed the truth about cloud backup and discovered how to separate the truth from the mythology and surrounding the cloud backup model.

Some of the aspects of Cloud were also discussed. Cloud and Virtualization gives agility and efficiency to instantly roll out new services and expand infrastructure. But the lack of physical control, or defined entrance and egress points, bring a whole host of security issues – data co-mingling, privileged user abuse, snapshots and backups, data deletion, data leakage, geographic regulatory requirements, cloud super-admins, and many more. Experts agreed that encryption is the unifying cloud security control, allowing protects, control and comply. In a nutshell the event was very informative and the technologies discussed are the future of IT.