Operational Requirements

Until recently, enterprises designed data centers with the mindset of supplying hosting, compute, storage, or other services with typical or standard organization types in mind. This mindset is a problem when considering modern-day data centers and cloud service offerings. As cloud-based application development continues to gain popularity and widespread adoption, it is important for us to recognize the benefits and efficiencies, along with the challenges and complexities. Cloud development typically includes integrated development environments, application lifecycle management components, along with application security testing. Unlike traditional deployments within a data center or even a hosted solution where network controls are ubiquitous and compensating perimeter controls are sometimes depended upon to offer application security, cloud applications...