Panda Security Insight

According to Gartner, Cloud Computing is one of the 10 strategic technologies that will definitely take off in 2010. It is clear that cost optimization is the main driving factor behind clients opting for IT services hosted in the cloud. Although resources from the cloud do not completely eliminate the IT costs of companies, they do reduce them.

In the area of security, Gartner predicts that security services delivered as cloud-based services will triple in many segments by 2013. “Security applications delivered as cloud-based services will have a dramatic impact on the industry, as many cloud-based services will more than triple in many security segments. Enterprises that use cloud-based security services to reduce the cost of security controls and to address the new security challenges that cloud-based computing will bring are most likely to prosper”.

In the case of security, the evolution to a new cloud-based protection model is also linked to the exponential increase in malware that we have seen in recent years. Back in 2006, aware of how malware was evolving, at Panda we began to work on a new security model that has allowed us to become the first to offer cloud-based security services for home users (Panda Cloud Antivirus) and companies (Panda Cloud Protection). The future of security –which in our case is the present- is in the cloud.

The market is currently maturing, and so, there is still some confusion around the definitions of Cloud Computing, SaaS, Cloud Security, Security from the Cloud… However, there can be no doubt that the cloud is here to stay. The evolution of Internet technologies has made the migration of applications from local PCs or servers to other intangible hosts a reality.  This, in turn, opens the way for a new business model catering to markets that demand increasingly agile, fast and scalable solutions. Here you can see an interesting white paper about this issue prepared by the Panda team.

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