The cloud holds many promises for companies, such as the
possibility of optimizing costs by paying for computing
resources on an “on-demand” basis, improved reliability, lower
administration costs, and others still. At the same time, many
issues still remain. There is still a lot of confusion related
to the security of cloud solutions, both in terms of data
security, that is, the capacity of cloud providers to protect
their customer’s data, as well as in terms of legal security for
the stored information, which is the compliance with legislation
(many times from multiple countries) and the legal risks
associated with it. While many different areas from IT can
benefit from employing the cloud, for many different reasons,
there are some use cases where cloud computing fits particularly
well. These cases represent situations where the benefits from
adopting a cloud solution clearly outweigh the potential risks
associated with it, and are the use cases that many companies
are choosing to experiment with in the cl