HP's Hurd concerned about cloud security
Published: 21 Oct 2009 11:03 BST
At the Gartner Symposium in Florida on Tuesday, HP chief executive Mark Hurd said cloud computing has promise but that he and customers he speaks to are leery of moving important applications to another company's infrastructure outside the company's own firewall.
"I think it's a very attractive model, but there will be challenges," Hurd said. "At the end of the day, if you tell a CEO, 'Put our email in the cloud', a certain amount of CEOs will tell you not [to]. If [HP CIO Randy] Mott told me, 'Put the general ledger up in cloud', I'd say go back to work, we're not doing that."
The cloud is real for many consumer services, he said. But for Hurd, security is one reason it would not be suitable for HP's core financial records stored in the general ledger. "We get about 1,000 hacks a day. They're more sophisticated every month," Hurd said. "Security and reliability is a huge thing. It's unlikely we'd put anything outside the firewall that's material in nature that we couldn't 100 percent secure."
Read HP's Hurd dings cloud computing, IBM in full on CNET News.
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