Patents Portfolio Analysis Of Cloud Security Technology

As the emerging technologies of IT industry, cloud computing has been a hottopic in the IT sector. Cloud computing is a new model of IT resource delivery anduse, which based on the technical of virtualization, distributed computing, gridcomputing, parallel processing. It gathers the terminals, computer clusters and serverclusters which scattered around into a large pool of resources. Cloud computingdistributes resource dynamically according to the needs of users, and monitor theactual usage of the resources avoiding transition and low use of resources. Cloudcomputing, which has high scalability, super computing power, virtualization,low-cost and flexible service, brings a new technological revolution in the IT industryand has huge changes to the enterprise and people’s lifestyles.Huge potential benefits brought by cloud computing promotes its rapiddevelopment. International giants of IT companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Google,Amazon, have launched cloud computing products and services in order to size cloudservices market heights. However, the development of cloud computing is not easy.Many cloud computing security accidents happened in2011. Security issues in cloudcomputing has emerged and becomes the key issue in the smooth development ofcloud computing. At present, many domestic and foreign enterprises andorganizations have launched cloud computing security research, summed multiplesecurity problems of cloud computing. Cloud computing security is a collection offactor of safety all about the cloud service provider to provide a stable, secure cloudservices for cloud users or cloud computing, including both cloud computing refers tospecific applications in the field of security and cloud computing and applicationsecurity.As the security problem becoming the barrier to cloud computing promotion,cloud service providers has been busy inventing and applying patents of cloudsecurity technology in order to size cloud services market heights. As the competitionof cloud security technology becoming tougher, major cloud security companies havedeveloped the patent strategy in cloud security technology, hoping to seize thecommanding heights of cloud security technology patents. The articles focus on cloudsecurity technology patent portfolio analysis. Through the analysis of the inventor ofpatents, the applicants, technical composition of patents and the annual trend of patents, it helps to understand the distribution of cloud security technology at homeand abroad, analyses the selection of patent strategy at home and abroad at this stage,hoping to provide the information for China cloud security industry to make patentstrategy.