Risks and rewards in cloud computing applications

The concept of cloud computing is like everything in the real world has two sides, risks and rewards. Cloud computing is not a perfect solution, and when it comes to making a big mistake, there's no perfect effect. Frankly speaking, whether cloud computing can make a business successful depends on how they apply cloud computing. If they actually do everything right, cloud computing will drive the company's success and make a huge profit. But they have never thought that now they have been using the technology that has been eliminated is also likely to earn good profits.

Let's first look at the risks associated with cloud computing applications.

1. Network dependencies

Perhaps the most fundamental drawback of cloud computing is its reliance on Internet infrastructure. You need to connect to the Internet to access the cloud, which makes it easy to disconnect and service without warning. This means that it can happen during a very important task or a trading point in time, and if it is limited by time, it will be delayed or completely lost. So, relative to internal server stability, although users will not be able to access these servers outside of the office, but it is certain that if the error will only affect a small number of businesses.

2. Difficulties in creating hybrid systems

Some organizations, especially those that hold sensitive information, such as government departments and financial institutions, have their own independent IT services, and they generally do not transfer data to the outside, regardless of the advantages of cloud computing efficiency and performance. While these IT systems are fairly consistent internally, there is no industry-standardized form for all systems to connect to their new cloud systems. Building a legacy system-compliant public cloud structure requires some it wizardry, and some hardware optimizations. But, to be sure, these institutions are certainly unwilling to give up completely the real and reliable systems currently in use.

3. Centralization

Because an organization or agency typically outsource their data and application services to a centralized vendor, the result is a dependency on the server. If a service provider is unable to provide a service for any reason, all clients will be affected, which could cause significant damage to both parties. If this problem is not solved for a long time, I believe it will be a big problem.

4. Data integrity

The security of data is always the most important for any enterprise or organization. The original data is internal hosting, the application of cloud computing will be out of the data, which will create a huge risk. Because it means opening up new avenues of attack, it may be possible to intercept one or more of these attacks, but not all of which will inevitably result in the loss of data. In this case, you need better encryption of data, but technology is always evolving, it can be said that a person invented a new thing, posterity will be able to break it. Privacy is another worry when it comes to keeping the data intact. If you give the data to a third party, even if you sign a privacy contract, how can you guarantee that a third party will not use your data to create more benefits for itself?

Of course, the emergence of a new thing we should not only focus on its adverse factors, we should pay more attention to and use its advantages. The downside is part of it, but we should magnify its advantages. Here is a look at cloud computing applications for our benefit.

1. Reduce costs

Access to low thresholds and pay-per-view cloud models means that not only large enterprises can afford it, some small and medium-sized enterprises can also enjoy the same cloud services as large companies. Because this is the concept of economies of scale based on virtualization and applications. In addition, for cloud service providers, because not everyone will need a lot of resources, so in the provision of cloud services to customers can be very flexible operation, cheap cloud operations so that cloud computing resources can be the most reasonable allocation, which allows cloud computing providers can provide almost unlimited resources.

2. Increase productivity

As a result of reducing costs and saving time, companies can put the time and money saved to other more important aspects. This is also because the application of cloud computing can make business process, and then improve efficiency.

3. Flexibility。

If the enterprise does not attach importance to IT infrastructure, the enterprise may spend millions of in 5 years, but in fact they can do it through cloud computing technology without too much risk and high cost. If they do not solve the problem, they can quickly make adjustments. And developers and cloud service providers can use their own knowledge of cloud technology, combined with users need to develop and test new services and applications. This flexibility ensures that all new problems encountered during the service process can be resolved.

4. Security Benefits

But we also think that safety is risky. This is because the security work of cloud computing can result in a good or bad effect like the network running. The difference, however, is that this is a significant benefit for a small organization without technical knowledge. Cloud service providers have provided hardware and knowledge to implement modern security measures, rather than spending money to acquire and implement security systems that train a person how to run an internal implementation.

5. Reliability

To be realistic, Internet connectivity is an indication of interruption, not to mention the provider itself. The internal system, which is used for economic scale, can be said to be still more secure. But cloud technology providers can provide 24/7 of technical support and trained and experienced personnel to handle the infrastructure to keep it at its best, so that all customers can benefit from it. So in contrast to the old model, each organization has its own team of onsite IT staff that can challenge skills.

Obviously, any change is risky, but the benefits of cloud computing are undoubtedly more pronounced. Especially in terms of SMEs, because they themselves in technology and capital can not compete with large enterprises. Of course, the premise is that they should do their own planning and understand where they need the most help from cloud computing providers.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)