29 Jun 2010

Cloud services 'to dominate'

Cloud services will dominate business IT infrastructure by 2013, it has been stated.

According to Andrew Donoghue in an interview for SC Magazine, the cloud will become an ever-present part of data handling in corporate infrastructure and this is now becoming the case for many larger firms, but the smaller ones will soon follow suit.

However, he warned that companies will need to look at more sophisticated security measures if they wish to ensure their data is safe at all times in the future.

"Businesses need to put measures in place to protect the data they hold and standard passwords just cannot protect against the sophisticated hackers around today," Neil Hollister, chief executive officer of CryptoCard, told the publication.

Meanwhile, the Internet and American Life Project by the Pew Research Center recently revealed that 72 per cent of respondents to a poll felt businesses will be much more reliant on smartphone and cloud applications to carry out their work by 2020.