Uneven maturity obscures cloud platform choice

Platform-as-a-service will play key role in unlocking cloud benefits for many businesses, but varying maturity of technology and lack of interoperability make choosing right vendor tough, industry watchers say. (By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on July 21, 2011) [more].

That's is from business perspective. In my perspective, cloud provider are lacking of security either in securing their infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), system (SaaS), etc. Although there are works done on it, but it is yet to reduce the risk of user and provide from attacks. We thought cloud is something new, but to me, it is just an old things re-branded by business people to attract customer. It still carries the old things issues. If your cloud is running on Linux, the security holes of the OS is still there. If you are using Windows, the problems we faced with windows nowadays is still valid in cloud environment. Further more, it is more dangerous in cloud than in normal networked environment because users are sharing across boundaries on the same structures, platform, system, etc. One attacks on single node can cause lots of damages.