{"id":3557,"date":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:00:01","slug":"cloud-computing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Rogue Clouds Bring Unexpected Costs and Security Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rogue Clouds<\/em> refer to the unapproved use of cloud services within an organization. \u00a0 Rogue clouds increasingly are causing security issues and resulting unplanned for expenses.<\/p>\n<p>A <a title=\"Symantec report on Rogue Clouds and Hidden Cloud costs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/content\/en\/us\/about\/media\/pdfs\/b-state-of-cloud-global-results-2013.en-us.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report by Symantec<\/a> finds that 77 percent of all businesses have been hit with unexpected costs related to cloud technology. \u00a0When broken down by business size, 83 percent of companies affected are large while 70 percent of the companies are small and medium sized businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Why do Rogue Clouds happen? \u00a0The most common reason is time efficiency. \u00a0By going to the cloud, business groups find that they can gain access to on-line services and tools in significantly shorter periods of time compared to how long it might take if they went through the much longer review and approval cycle controlled by a central IT group. \u00a0But the lack of up-front review and due diligence before using cloud services often results in long-term problems. \u00a043 percent of businesses have lost data in the cloud because they couldn&#8217;t find it or because it was inadvertently deleted. \u00a040 percent of rogue cloud projects have resulted in the unintentional exposure of confidential information. \u00a025 percent have reported having their accounts and data hacked, stolen or hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>The Symantec report also found cloud storage was poorly utilized by most companies. \u00a0While it&#8217;s only necessary to &#8216;pay for what you use&#8217; in the cloud, it still is necessary to provision a block of storage to work with. \u00a0The report found that most companies vastly overprovision the amount of \u00a0storage compared to what they really need. \u00a0Best practice would be to using 50 percent or more of the provisioned storage, but most companies are using less than 17 percent of the cloud storage which they have available.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Francis deSouza bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francisdesouza\" target=\"_blank\">Francis deSouza<\/a>, group president, Enterprise Products and Services at Symantec, said that &#8220;By taking control of cloud deployments, companies can seize advantage of the flexibility and cost savings associated with the cloud, while minimizing the data control and security risks linked with rogue cloud use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit This\" title=\"Reddit This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/stumbleupon.png\" alt=\"Stumble Now!\" title=\"Stumble Now!\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/buzz?targetUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F&amp;headline=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/yahoo_buzz.png\" alt=\"Buzz This\" title=\"Buzz This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dzone.com\/links\/add.html?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dzone.png\" alt=\"Vote on DZone\" title=\"Vote on DZone\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?t=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/facebook.png\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/delicious.png\" alt=\"Bookmark this on Delicious\" title=\"Bookmark this on Delicious\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetkicks.com\/kick\/?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dotnetkicks.png\" alt=\"Kick It on DotNetKicks.com\" title=\"Kick It on DotNetKicks.com\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/dotnetshoutout.com\/Submit?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dotnetshoutout.png\" alt=\"Shout it\" title=\"Shout it\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F&amp;title=&amp;summary=&amp;source=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"Share on LinkedIn\" title=\"Share on LinkedIn\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/faves?add=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/technorati.png\" alt=\"Bookmark this on Technorati\" title=\"Bookmark this on Technorati\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Reading+https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Post on Twitter\" title=\"Post on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-4%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/google_buzz.png\" alt=\"Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)\" title=\"Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue Clouds refer to the unapproved use of cloud services within an organization. \u00a0 Rogue clouds increasingly are causing security issues and resulting unplanned for expenses. A report by Symantec finds that 77 percent of all businesses have been hit<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-4\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}