How the Cloud Killed the Firewall

The traditional firewall is dead or at the very least dying.

Cloud and hybrid environments, mobile access, and online applications have made it all but obsolete, experts say, and data center operators should be looking at replacing their firewalls with more granular security technologies.

Applications and data used to live in data centers and be delivered from there to employees who were themselves on a corporate network.

Read full article at Data Center Knowledge.