Industry experts point to cloud computing misunderstanding

Today, cloud computing is becoming increasingly mainstream. In the Asia-Pacific region, about two-thirds of companies say they will increase their budget for cloud computing spending next year.


　　


clearly, policymakers in most Asian companies are already fully aware of the advantages of cloud computing, and the advantages are manifold. These benefits include the ability to deliver more robust business agility and lower costs (including a range of costs from it capital investment to operational spending). Basically, cloud computing is becoming a key tool to help companies gain competitive advantage today. It has risen to the height of strategic issues.


　　


Still, there are some misconceptions about understanding through cloud computing, especially public cloud computing. The most common misconceptions are as follows:


　　


same premise, cloud computing is inferior to enterprise internal software security.


Cloud Computing is only for consumers and smaller businesses;


Cloud Computing does not apply to mission-critical activities.


Private cloud can provide more benefits and no drawbacks.


　　


Myth 1: Under the same premise, cloud computing is not as good as enterprise internal software security


　　


at present, there is no evidence that cloud computing is less secure than enterprise internal software.


　　


In fact, there are many strong arguments to prove the conclusion. In many ways, cloud computing is inherently more secure than software within the enterprise. Most security vulnerabilities are caused by human error. In cloud computing, more automation is used to reduce the likelihood of human error. In addition, enterprise internal systems are often distributed in nature, so there are more points of vulnerability. Cloud architecture is more concentrated and has few vulnerabilities.


　　


Moreover, cloud service providers tend to focus more on security than most individual institutions. For them, a security breach could destroy the entire business and reputation of the service provider.


　　


In recent years, major security vulnerabilities have nothing to do with cloud computing. Sony, the U.S. Department of Defense, the British government and other recent major security risks are the result of human error and poor process control. In a cloud environment it is easier to manage these two factors than within the enterprise.


　　


Myth 2: Cloud computing is only for consumers and small businesses


　　


Obviously, this assertion is incorrect because there are many examples of large enterprises using private cloud and public cloud services. Generally, it is considered that public cloud services are not suitable for enterprise use.


　　

The most famous example of a large enterprise
running a public cloud is Netflix, a 2 billion-dollar enterprise. It mainly runs cloud computing on AmazonEC2. In the Asia-Pacific region, even the financial services institutions of large companies are using public cloud services. For example, the Federal Bank's subsidiary Bankwest (using SuccessFactors). The services of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and concur are also widely used by enterprises.


　　


use of SaaS is a key business unit of a large enterprise, not a smaller one.


　　


Indeed, there are related regulatory and compliance constraints. Has curbed some companies in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the financial services sector, using public cloud services. However, this only involves customer data. There are more application areas such as human resources, ERP and accounting loans without regulatory restrictions


　　


Myth 3: Cloud computing is not suitable for mission-critical activities


　　


Admittedly, in some cases, cloud computing does not work for critical business activities. However, there are also examples of mission-critical workloads using cloud computing.


　　


For example, Netflix uses Amazon's services in its mission-critical activities. We see more and more of the various workloads moving to cloud services, including the public cloud. Public cloud service providers now offer improved SLAs, similar to other service providers around mission-critical activities.


　　


Given the increased use of smartphones and tablets by senior managers, they want to work on these devices and need to drive mission-critical cloud services. These mobile devices carry very small amounts of data that can be accessed remotely in a cloud environment.


　　


Public cloud services also provide critical mission-critical workload services with high business agility.


　　


Finally, 67% of the server infrastructure is virtualized. Virtualization is a key step towards cloud computing.


　　


Myth 4: Private Cloud offers more benefits and no drawbacks


　　


security issues are often the reason why public cloud computing is not as private as it is understood. However, there is no evidence that private clouds are more secure than public clouds. In fact, most public clouds deploy best practice security policies and procedures. It is not only the private cloud that deploys.


　　

The
private cloud offers many different types of benefits. Typically, the private cloud does not provide the services provided by the following public cloud:


　　


　　· 　　 Opex model, not capex model.


public clouds can provide as much scalability as possible.


Public cloud can realize resource sharing with related economies of scale.


less need for service and scarce skills support.