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LATEST INTELLIGENCE PRESENTED BY Download White Paper here 14 INTELLIGENTCIO SECURING DYNAMIC CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS: DEVELOPING YOUR SOLUTION CHECKLIST IN A CHANGING PARADIGM C loud computing has transformed how we consume and deploy IT solutions. Compute power is rapidly evolving to a utility model, with shared infrastructure at its core. This shared infrastructure underpinning the cloud revolution has also driven a fundamental shift in how we design and deploy technology within the data center. Servers, storage, networks, even the data center itself has moved beyond physical limits to become virtualized services residing on physical hardware. With this new virtual shared infrastructure model, comes new risks. According to IDC, 75% of organizations are implementing or considering the implementation of public cloud. Further, they predict that 50% of enterprise workloads will migrate to public cloud by 2018. At the same time, the threat environment is only expanding, and it is no longer the traditional hacker breaching the network perimeter that www.intelligentcio.com