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For years, the cloud hosting industry has been fighting the concept that hosting in the cloud is less secure than keeping data in your own data center (“data center” could mean anything from a few dusty computers in a closet to a state-of-the-art conditioned facility).
Now that Cloud Service Providers have convinced the market that the cloud is secure enough for their critical workloads, they are having to revisit the conversation. Customers are now expecting their security and compliance issues are taken care of simply by moving their data to a hosted solution.
But this is not the case.