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DANGERS ABOUND:

SECURITY IN

THE CLOUD

We have talked thus far as if it were a simple matter to reor-
ganize the data center into an internal cloud, offload spikes to
an external cloud, and collect hundreds of thousands of dol-

lars in savings. It may be easy to do this someday, but today this
is an idealized scenario and far from the complex reality that
rules a real operating data center. In fact, hazards abound.
As a multitenant facility, the cloud brings unique chal-
lenges to maintaining security, data integrity, and clean oper-
ations. Different customers, perhaps competitors, sit on the
same physical server, separated by the logical boundaries of a

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