Three hidden risks of cloud computing

While cloud computing is attractive in terms of both management and efficiency, it also poses a variety of known and unknown risks, according to a recent cloud computing risk report from Cornell University Labs.

The well-known risk topics of cloud computing include information security risks, internal attacks, and cloud downtime. The Cornell University report points to the three hidden risks of cloud computing:

As third-party cloud computing services increasingly take multiple hardware resource pools, unpredictable interactions between load balancing and various loose cloud services can lead to "cloud downtime".

Two, opaque layered architecture makes many "independent" cloud computing service providers actually share resources at the bottom, which can lead to disastrous "sitting" consequences.

Third, cloud computing has made the challenge of keeping data long. Cloud computing has broken the past, centralized data backup model, leading only cloud computing providers to "back up" the architecture cloud applications and cloud data.

The University of Cornell said in its report that companies and governments need to fully recognize and assess the potential risks of cloud computing before they move to a seemingly very convenient but potentially less stable cloud computing infrastructure.

The Cornell report sparked widespread controversy in the cloud computing industry, with Wired magazine columnist Jon Udell, who argues that the potential risk of cloud computing that Cornell's report points to is actually worrying. He used the popularity of the grid for example, although today people will still encounter partial power failure, but this does not affect the popularity of electricity and its contribution to socioeconomic development.

In addition, Udell also believes that today many enterprises have begun to adopt a "hybrid cloud" strategy, both to ensure that the key data control and backup, but also to enjoy the convenience of cloud applications and business innovation.

Finally, as cloud computing standards improve, and Amazon, Microsoft and other "cloud downtime" to identify and publish the cause of the accident. The reliability of cloud computing will be greatly guaranteed.

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