Cloud Computing's focus is shifted from cloud dominance to cloud disadvantage

In 2010, Microsoft's pace of cloud computing was significantly accelerated. Windows Azure was officially commercially available on January 1, 2010 and has been charging customers since February. Then, on January 14, HP and Microsoft announced that the two sides would jointly invest 250 million of billions of dollars in the development of cloud computing within 3 years. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said in a speech at the University of Washington March 5 that Microsoft would put the company's power into cloud computing. Mr Ballmer's speech is no doubt a battle-breaker for Microsoft's winning cloud computing, which in part marks the overall strategic transformation of Microsoft's business.

Cloud users are shifting their focus on cloud computing from cloud dominance to cloud disadvantage. After all, the cloud's advantages are obvious, such as the ability to quickly expand and configure, but this article focuses on the missing part of cloud computing, after all, these deficiencies are growing.

Cloud computing lacks the standards for data processing and security practices, and there is no provision for manufacturers to inform users of their data storage locations. Only some organizations within the industry are focused on these issues, such as the Cloud Security alliance. Cloud computing industry has some characteristics of the emerging cities in the Western pioneer era. But the concept of cloud computing itself is maddening. It seems to be a term that inspires more and more controversy, especially at the Saascon 2010 conference this week.

This disappointment at the lack of cloud computing standards has spread as cloud services have taken root in the business world. In the case of Orbitz, the large tour companies that dabble in many areas are running a wide range of services, such as arranging golf tee times, scheduled concerts and national tours. As many companies begin to turn to cloud services, Orbitz is also a user of cloud service providers and cloud-based software, a service product. Edward Ellis, chief information security officer at Orbitz, trusts software as a service, and he believes cloud services will help the company develop and help the company focus on improving its core competencies.

But to provide software as a service, the Orbitz company must address the needs of users of various industries to review, and various industry users cover everything from on-site audits to data center reviews. A viable solution is the security data standard being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance, which plans to use the usual templates to keep users informed of current data security, Ellis said.

The demand for industry-standard agreements is obvious in interviews and symposiums at the Saascon conference. The demand behind cloud services is flexibility, the ability to quickly scale and configure servers, and contracts with vendors may be centered around flexibility, and nothing else, explains Keith Wolfe, vice president of operations at been dispense, an electronic prescription provider.

Wolff referred to a service provider who had previously provided them with an upgrade service, and his service level agreement provided that only their software and initially contracted hardware could be used.

This type of agreement provided by the cloud provider is the actual vendor-led, Wolff said. Since then, he has moved the company's services to Stratascale, located in the city of Sacramento, California State, because the company allows him to use dedicated hardware that exercises real management power. Large cloud users such as Los Angeles, for example, agreed with Google to use its Google Apps service to violate its confidentiality agreement, which ignores provisions that give them the right to know and execute.

"The cloud market has to define its own needs because manufacturers are pushing it," says Jeff Saip, management's president of security disorientated. It is estimated that the process and security issues remain to be resolved as the industry deals with the setting of data processing levels.

"In cloud computing, Microsoft has been promoting the concept of cloud. Not the cloud, nor the end, the cloud. "Mr. Shenwey, general manager of Microsoft Greater China Development tools and Platform Division, said:" Microsoft's view of cloud computing is that by means of a standardized approach and the Internet, three very important components and together, software, development platforms and infrastructure, will provide users with on-demand payments, Self-service can also be done at the same time. ”

Shenwey that 30 years ago, Microsoft's vision was to have a PC with a Microsoft operating system on every desktop. In today's Internet age, Microsoft's vision is to use the power of the Internet and software to create seamless experiences across different devices for users. The opening of the cloud computing era has accelerated the realization of this new vision, and software is playing a decisive role. The cloud computing platform is the result of the gradual evolution of existing it and Internet technologies and business models, and a successful cloud computing platform maximizes the experience, capabilities, and resources of existing software development.

According to Microsoft's cloud computing strategy, the so-called "three screens a cloud", namely how to fully use the power of the Internet, software as the benchmark, better combination of PC, telephone (mobile) and television three different types of terminals (screens) to provide customers with the seamless user experience required. The "three screens and one cloud" in the cloud, refers to the Internet mode, in addition, there are servers outside the cloud.

"What Microsoft really wants to do in cloud computing is to provide a lot of technology for cloud computing." "At the moment, Microsoft's important point is how to switch a lot of business applications from the desktop or server to the online service model," Shenwey said. "In fact, over the past five years, Microsoft has done a lot of internet work." In the application of software, Microsoft now has a system to turn exchange into online applications, into Internet software, the same, office,sharepoint, etc. has been achieved internet. On the application platform, the SQL Azure online service program is the only online service-relational database in the world. The Windows Azure platform, which is commercially available this year, is a cloud computing platform running in Microsoft's data center, which includes Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric. Windows Azure is a cloud computing service operating system; SQL Azure is a database in the cloud; AppFabric is a web-based development service that makes it easier to connect and interoperate existing applications and services with the cloud platform.