{"id":258,"date":"2011-11-29T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mericjohnson.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-11-29T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T09:50:07","slug":"symantec-ceo-clears-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/symantec-ceo-clears-the-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec CEO Clears the Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of hosting Enrique Salem (CEO Symantec) today as part of our Britt Technology Impact Series.\u00a0 This year the series is focused on cloud and we have already had a fantastic line-up of speakers from infrastructure providers (Peter DeSantis of Amazon), service providers (Kent Parker of Ariba), the enterprise user side (CIOs of Nestl\u00e9, Bechtel, and Hilti), and the startup space.\u00a0 Each speaker this year has pointed to security as an issue in the cloud.\u00a0 So it was fantastic to have Enrique speak to that concern.\u00a0 He argued that while security should not be taken for granted, it is not a show-stopper.\u00a0 In fact, he argued that many firms would be more secure in the cloud than running their own IT.\u00a0 His bigger concern, particularly for consumer cloud services, is privacy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t control what users put out themselves\u201d and once it is out there, it will be there forever.<\/p>\n<p>Besides security, Enrique noted that the hype around the cloud has created many myths including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be a \u201cbig switch\u201d \u2013 He argued that the switch will take more time than many believe and that enterprises will maintain a substantial IT infrastructure far into the foreseeable future.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud computing is IT commoditization \u2013 Rather than commoditizing the role of enterprise IT, the cloud will focus the IT organization on higher value-adding business activities.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud comes in a box \u2013 He argued that \u201ccloud in a box\u201d offerings are overpriced and that firms should focus on assembling low-priced commodity components.<\/li>\n<li>Customers are moving to \u201cthe\u201d cloud \u2013 There is no such thing as \u201cthe\u201d cloud.\u00a0 Rather the cloud is a collection of publically available services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4uF5YNyHj2A[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of hosting Enrique Salem (CEO Symantec) today as part of our Britt Technology Impact Series.\u00a0 This year the series is focused on cloud and we have already had a fantastic line-up of speakers from infrastructure providers (Peter DeSantis of Amazon), service providers (Kent Parker of Ariba), the enterprise user side (CIOs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,50],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cloud-computing","tag-information-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}