The seven big mysteries of cloud computing in the 2013

As we all know, from the birth of cloud computing, people's confusion on cloud computing is endless, the traditional view of cloud computing also has a lot of doubt, the shadow, never absent. With the rise of cloud computing, these issues have become more and more important.

As more and more companies begin to layout http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13798.html "> Cloud computing Strategy, the problem begins to move into the cloud." The following is the enterprise in the process of migration in the seven unsolved mystery, at least not yet resolved, will also haunt us in 2013.

1. Who is paying for cloud computing

This is a very tangled issue in almost every business. IT departments are putting a lot of cost into cloud computing, which is counted on the company's credit card bills, which means they are hidden in a variety of corporate budgets. And that creates another problem--what do you guess if the corporate credit card holder that binds to the cloud account leaves the company? It will undoubtedly affect the procurement of cloud computing, and even the cloud computing projects.

2. Is cloud computing cheap in the long run?

In fact, there are many facts which prove that this is not true. In five years ' time, the cloud computing model is not necessarily cheaper than the hardware and software costs of buying a local system. Why? Because in this process the company will always pay for services that have never been served.

3. Will cloud computing service companies put their business into the cloud?

For the IT industry, a 6.4 billion dollar conspiracy exists. From a vendor's point of view, a local system is definitely easier to make money than a cloud service, so vendors are really going to let users do the migration?—— at least in the short run it's not good for them. But from the point of view of migration, manufacturers are bound to get generous returns, especially when users are locked in one of their services.

4. Is cloud computing a retrograde, open sport?

Over the past decade, business and industry leaders have been releasing industry standards, protocols and technologies. Why can't an enterprise release a back-end purchase system without touching the front-end interface? The local system is doing well, but touching cloud computing services is not the same thing. If you want to change the cloud computing service provider, it will lead to another side of the ugly.

5. Who owns the data in the cloud?

The current law does not seem to fully answer the question. As is known to all, cloud computing is the cloud, because users have no idea where their data is stored, and the cloud provider's physical location of the data is always confidential, but when the enterprise is legally responsible for the need for data retention will expose the legal issues. This seems to be a problem when it comes to law enforcement when companies need to find or save data as evidence. In addition, the question of whether the supplier needs to retain the data and how long it will remain after the termination of the contract.

6. Whether the data in the cloud is more secure than the background

For the people and CIOs who support cloud computing, they believe that data storage is more secure in the cloud than it is stored locally, because Tameness believes that a qualified supplier will be safe if the employee is well trained and secure. But what if the people in the cloud computing provider's data center don't have enough security skills? Is IT staff in the third party really more trustworthy than the person who manages the data?

7. Do large data centers really save resources?

As cloud computing lands, as the world is busy building data centers, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and other giants are new data centers, and the data center has become a new industry, so that environmentalists criticize these huge data centers consume a lot of energy, it seems to be true. However, we all ignore the other aspects of cloud computing savings, such as the use of less paper, E-commerce rise so that the store is less, online collaboration so that the cost of communication is lower without time-consuming travel and so on.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)