Reavis noted that because cloud providers are required to provide security as part of the services they offer, you may also find that they can provide security and redundancy services beyond anything you could do on your own.
While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.