The Cloud at Your Service

Chapter 4. Security and the private cloud

This chapter covers

• Learning about information security in the public cloud
• Considering the deployment of private clouds
• Using private clouds to your advantage
• Getting to know virtual private clouds

In the previous chapter, you learned about the economics of cloud computing—or, more specifically, the economics of public cloud computing. You saw that for startups, the use of the cloud can often be game-changing, enabling entrepreneurs to launch services that were never before possible. They can create new businesses with very little capital. Small and medium-size enterprises can use the public cloud for applications that aren’t necessarily strategic to their business. These can be moved into the ...