Cloud security in public versus private cloud

Currently, both individual users and businesses are excited to move their data into the cloud. For example, doctors now are making their efforts to make health care IT options or to save their patients’ data. Moreover, a local grocery store is also adopting cloud to record the sales of each month. Everyone is now familiar with using cloud services.

But on the market there are a lot of cloud service vendors for you to choose. As a result, you may feel very confused to pick one that is suitable for your needs.

In addition to picking which cloud vendor, choosing which cloud service to adopt seems to be more dizzy. This article is going outline some differences between public cloud and private ones.

1. The cloud data center environment

A cloud data center environment is one with a lot of different servers used for operating such services as email, CRM as well as many others. These services can be approached thanks to the Internet connection and they are also easily deployed and measured. More precisely, you are able to access the service at a fast pace and your cloud service vendor can charge you by depending on how much storage you use.

In addition, there are a lot of cloud service vendors offering you full approach to compute power with a very granular scalability. More precisely, if you make purchase of cloud services, you do not have to purchase a new server, rack so that you can add more users to the service. What you need to do is only to add more accounts of the users you want to add and then pay for just how much of the storage you take advantage of. Thanks to this plus, you do not have to pay a large amount of money while you actually do not use up all the services.

2. Public cloud and private cloud

For instance, Gmail and Google drive are some examples of public cloud services. Office 365 is, too. And Amazon Web Services as well as Dropbox are also of this type. Every user is able to utilize these kinds of services and they need to pay only for what they use.

A private cloud is also similar to a public cloud but you are the only one can own it as well as operate it inside your data center. More precisely, with this kind of cloud, it means you do not provide services to the whole world, just to your internal clients or departments and staff in your business or organization.

The big difference between a public cloud and a private cloud is obvious. If you are adopting a private cloud, you are able to manage the data centers, pay for what you use as well as run all the infrastructure that you want even the software.

3. Security implications

After having a general knowledge of both private and public clouds, you may detect that the big line between these two services is the security. If you take advantage of private clouds, you would be able to take control over the physical servers and also the approach to those servers. While if you are adopting a public cloud service, you will lack an extent of cloud security as not only you can manage the machines and access to them, but there are more other companies being able to do so. As a result, public cloud services may not be appropriate for you if you are going to store such sensitive data as your patients’ information or your business plans.