Cloud computing hidden costs

"Cloud computing can be a huge cost savings," says the cloud service provider. Indeed, most companies choose the platform of cloud computing, and cost control is the main consideration. However, with the adoption of cloud services more and more time, many enterprises found that their use costs are increasing.

Cloud computing in the use of the process, there are several major hidden costs are not noticed, but its real existence.

One is the issue of the administration of SSL certificates. The existence of cloud data, information, not fixed, according to real-time demand, need to transfer each other, or between the local and cloud flow, in order to ensure the security of this flow, SSL certificate is essential. SSL encryption is the foundation of cloud computing, and once the cloud is selected, the enterprise must have the means to effectively manage SSL certificates. Many private cloud users say that managing SSL certificates is a complex task, and that the public cloud user is not optimistic about whether the SSL certificate management of their service providers meets the requirements.

The second is the low efficiency of data management in the cloud and the waste of storage space. The principle of cloud storage is how much space is used to pay the cost, in theory, the way to reduce costs is efficient management of data to ensure the value of data in the cloud. The reality is that the data usage of cloud storage is very low, average less than 20%, the repetition rate of data in the cloud is also very high, occupy unnecessary space.

The third is the backup of cloud data and the recovery problem after the accident. Data into the cloud storage, not into the unbreakable safe, in fact, the safe has been breached the possibility. But many enterprises in the cloud migration, did not seriously consider the data backup, more than 50% of enterprises have data loss, and these lost data, most of the recovery failed, causing great losses.

Generally speaking, the enterprise moves the business to the big cloud service platform, the technology is absolutely guaranteed, but cannot rule out the accidental natural disaster caused the infrastructure damage, but this kind of material reason loses the influence often very bad, even if the Amazon such big brand service provider, also cannot escape.

For a company that first involves cloud computing and wants to build a private cloud, it practitioners lack experience, and mistakes can easily lead to increased costs. Conventional virtualization technology is related to cloud computing, but it is composed of different technology architecture, cost structure and operation mode, which often becomes the management blind area of the enterprise high level, which leads to insufficient training of personnel. This disadvantage can be revealed when a later conversion server is virtualized.

From the composition, the above hidden costs can be enhanced by the enterprise technology training or optimization management to avoid, the key is that managers do not pay enough attention, so have to pay an expensive price.