Most cloud providers are implementing Web-class security nowadays because that is what current cloud users are used to, according to Dave Douglas, Sun Microsystems' senior vice president of cloud computing.
Douglas said clouds should have the same class of security that one would expect for websites or multiple websites being hosted together. Security becomes more of a concern when enterprises get involved and want to move more serious business functions there.
"Then the question is, 'Do you just try to make a public cloud more secure, or do you go more to a private cloud model?' " Douglas said. "I think that's still got a lot to be sorted through, and we're going to find different parts of an enterprise or business deciding if public is ok or not ok, and that's the right thought process."
Douglas also told SD Times that Sun has plans to create an in-house database through its MySQL technology and will use its Open Storage products for the cloud.