Cloud computing has many benefits, especially cost advantages, which make cloud computing very attractive in the current situation. Cloud computing advantages include: no additional investment is required to access computing resources, reducing data center infrastructure and power consumption, reducing PC processing energy consumption and costs, and faster and better project completion capabilities, ensure that remote office IT staff maintain infrastructure and software updates, and there may be more advantages.
On the other hand, with the support of virtual machines, cloud computing enables applications to dynamically adapt to needs and improve business processes. For example, in the face of the rapidly increasing demand for customer web applications, the processing capability can be quickly expanded.
The advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing are also obvious. Enterprises that choose to use cloud computing give up direct control over the enterprise assets running in cloud computing. The data and applications accessed through cloud computing are all in the cloud, instead of in your own enterprise data center (the owner can use the physical security verification to authorize and defend against intrusion or firewall to protect and control data ).
It can be seen that the consequences of insufficient cloud computing security protection are very serious. The theft of sensitive data has a direct impact on Enterprises' intellectual property rights and reputation.
Cloud computing vendors have learned about the risks and are working to improve security to ensure the security of customers' data. Many questions need to be considered when deploying cloud computing security policies, including how to use cloud computing and how to use it securely.
Another concern is that third-party companies or organizations handle security issues from the cloud computing infrastructure. How can customers know whether such security is effective and how to protect themselves?
However, cloud computing services are widely recognized, and more evidence shows that cloud computing will become the dominant model of network infrastructure, therefore, reliability and security will be the focus of enterprise IT managers in the present and future.
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