Private cloud, mixed cloud may solve security and latency issues

The role of the CIO position has been changing. And with the rapid rise of large data, analytics and cloud computing, and the size of the data itself, it is no doubt that CIOs are given a new definition of responsibility by the pressures of it innovation and continued high and technical complexity. Businesses want the IT department to handle more business with less, and CIOs need to find a balance between budget and IT service spending, and all of the problems seem to have erupted at this point.

At such a critical juncture, outstanding CIOs and CEOs have come forward to speak at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in the hope of helping the leaders of it executives and business executives to find ways to use data analysis and cloud computing technology to improve their business philosophy. Of course, all this is premised on not bringing extra pressure on already stretched IT resources.

The equipment that employees use to take photos of the scene may pose many challenges to it leaders, especially now that the BYOD wave has just ended and the company's honeymoon period, the security of cloud services itself has sparked widespread skepticism about the popularity of mobile devices.

In the cloud computing development agenda discussion, many experts have said that in addition to security, cloud computing complexity should also be the full attention of enterprise users.

For years, cloud service providers have been able to easily sell their products to human resources, sales, and other business units, but this has upset the IT department. In contrast, it leaders have been striving to strictly control enterprise assets and improve user management.

Now, Richard Dorough, head of legal services at PwC, argues that we have reason to seriously assess the data itself, service level agreements, and cloud service security before deciding to migrate anything to the cloud.

For Scott Blanchette, senior vice president of information and technology services at Pioneer Health Systems, mixed cloud and private cloud deployments are the best way to solve the problem, especially for health and other tightly regulated industries.

Blanchette that the value proposition of cloud services has a significant advantage over the effectiveness, speed, cost, flexibility and security of the Pioneer company. Clearly, security and privacy considerations are the biggest stumbling block for corporate users to hand cloud service providers, he explains. Even the Amazon Web Service, which currently has the highest market share, took four years to qualify for the FedRAMP (the federal Risk and Authorization management program) and meet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cloud safety standards.

In addition, we'd better look at cloud computing from a workload perspective, says senior vice president and CTO John Roese of EMC Corporation. "The most unpopular obscure encrypted storage" may become a good partner for the public cloud, he told us. But for data that needs to be analyzed in real time (for example, from Amazon servers to the corporate environment and then to mobile devices), low latency is probably the most important factor to consider.

To solve this problem, we can use the virtual desktop infrastructure to translate mobile devices into a pure data representation layer that can effectively improve latency, Roese said.