Network security expert Roger Strukhoff believes that organizations hesitant to move to cloud computing are afraid of losing control over their data, outsourcing IT operations and leery of potential security threats.

Strukhoff states in a piece for Cloud Computing Journal that enterprises that refuse to move out of fear need to rethink their stance as cloud computing offers them many advantages that on-site IT operations cannot. Among them, according to Strukhoff, are unlimited scalability and cost effectiveness.

"But to throw up the security red flag instinctively would be wrong. Cloud computing has a momentum behind it, due to the inherent logic of IT power as a commodity, a utility, a service," Strukhoff wrote for the news provider. "Let the providers take on the capex. And no, this won't kill off the IT hardware industry. If anything, it will make the companies smarter, as they deal with increasingly demanding customers."

In recent weeks, both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy announced the development of cloud-based systems. Industry experts believe that this endorsement from government institutions will go far to alleviate fears of businesses.ADNFCR-2553-ID-19651113-ADNFCR