Whenever you hear about a company’s hesitation to move applications and data into the cloud, concerns about information security are likely to come up. IT executives worry about the safety of putting data in the hands of a third party.
There’s a great irony in this, because in many cases cloud service providers offer even more secure computing environments than their clients do. Such is the case with IBM i Hosting, as provided by IBM partner Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS).
A hosted infrastructure such as IBM i provides the benefits common to many cloud services: increased flexibility, the cost efficiencies inherent with the cloud model and easy scalability—to name a few. These benefits give the cloud clear advantages over traditional IT infrastructures, for the smallest companies as well as the largest global enterprises.
But the benefits of the SIAS IBM i cloud environment go well beyond these, and particularly in the areas of security and reliability. The platform features one of the strongest security environments of any hosted service, with secure Internet connectivity and world-class data centers that offer the latest security features to ensure that customers’ systems and data are continually protected.
The SIAS IBM i Hosting environment was specifically designed and built to run reliable and secure IBM Power Systems, so companies of any size can feel comfortable leveraging the environment for their critical business processes.
Next, we will look at some of the specific security technologies supported by the IBM i Hosted environment.