SOA filling the Gaps

This post complements the post Cloud Computing: Hype, Vision or Reality? The previous post describes the presentation by Pini Cohen STKI Vice President in a in the 23 rd meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing . This post describes the interesting discussion during the meeting, which was focused on Cloud Computing challenges and risks. Security Often cites as the major risk of Cloud Computing and verified as the leading cause for avoiding Cloud Computing in surveys. One of the participants (a Security expert) argued that Security is partially real issue and partially psychological issue. The image of less controlled environment (Cloud is less controlled by a customer) is an image of less secured environment; therefore we should expect resistance to Cloud Computing. My take The issue is not only Security. It could be also an issue of Privacy. For example, usage of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for backups by a home c...