How do enterprises grasp it construction in cloud computing era

According to the "2009 It Decision makers Critical survey" report, Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing) and derivative software as services (SaaS) help companies reduce the cost of information investment, and 10.13% of respondents said they would import the technology service in 2009, but Does cloud computing really help companies fight the recession? At the same time, the rise of cloud computing has attracted the attention of hackers. According to security manufacturer AppRiver, 2009 cloud computing may be a wave of hacker attacks. Faced with the economic downturn and security threats, enterprises in the era of cloud computing should be how to grasp the future it construction? Who needs cloud computing? According to the relevant media and software and hardware industry revealed by the content, cloud computing can be divided into basic construction and application services two types. For the former, only those enterprises that have to deal with a large amount of data at a very short time, such as Google, have a need to deploy a cloud computing architecture that can be parallel computing; As of today, many hardware and software vendors have been active in demonstrating the products and services they offer to these companies. As for the latter, it refers to the network application services such as the architecture as services (IaaS), SaaS and platform-like services (PaaS) that help companies reduce their operating costs, such as Amazom's EC2, Google's Google.doc, IBM's "on-demand Management Services" (on Demand Consolidator services,odms) ", Microsoft (Microsoft) Dynamics CRM and Salesforce Salesforce.com, Taiwan has a lot of enterprises to start through the above Network application services to carry out day-to-day operations, such as Google Doc to replace part of Office system, and so on; can companies really enjoy SaaS without pain? Transfer costs will be about the choice of cloud computing services will be high and low. Cloud computing services may help companies reduce the cost of information operations, such as the cost of operating systems and data centers, but only if the enterprise has solved network bandwidth, security protection, standardized requirements and changes in employee usage habits. "Applications like SaaS are designed to be good, but the key is to be easy to use," said one information officer, who declined to be named. "How hardware and software vendors differentiate on premise services and IaaS, SaaS, and PAAs will affect the cost of transfer," the industry said. Oracle, think SAP (SAP) and Microsoft (Microsoft), and other vendors to provide the optional services on the premise and the choice of services such as the proportion of investment in the business, the availability and reliability of the choice of services, will affect the choice of the company's choice of service. Hacker attacks on cloud security need to be resolved enterprise databases have been the main targets of hackers attempting to gain personal information, while job search sites and social networking sites are becoming potential targets. This is not surprising, as the sites hold a large number of members ' information data, and this trend will intensify in 2009. Hackers are now starting to get personal information by attacking Facebook and LinkedIn. Touchette expects hackers to look for more targets this year. AppRiver senior security analysts said that the economic downturn has led companies to need emerging technologies to help them cut costs, so companies face the risk of hacking attacks more serious. In short, cloud computing (services) may not be a panacea for businesses that want to reduce operating costs unless the cloud-computing, cloud-service providers can help companies reduce the risk of importing cloud computing (services).