What does it mean to choose cloud computing? Where are the pros and cons?

With the expansion of cloud deployments, companies will face more difficulties and increase the challenges faced by cloud applications, according to a recent McKinsey report. Here are some questions about cloud usage today:

And the attractiveness of the cloud environment is rising in tandem with the increased risk type of the enterprise. Managers asked whether external cloud vendors could protect critical data and how to explicitly meet the permissions of the people who store specific data and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11872.html "> Access data." Some CIOs and Cro are also asking whether deploying a private cloud can have a single platform-use vulnerability.

In response to McKinsey's report, the foreign-media columnist cites the many companies it believes are often asking questions or consulting their senior executives about cloud issues and configuring answers from McKinsey analysts after each question.

1. Should enterprises refuse to use the cloud because of its inherent risk? Denying the use of cloud functionality is not a viable option for most organizations. Based on a combination of higher flexibility and lower it costs, cloud computing drives large enterprises to deploy projects that use the cloud.

2. How much does the enterprise invest in the cloud? According to IDC data, enterprises in the third party management and public cloud environment investment will be from 2011 29203.html ">8 billion to 2015 to more than 70 billion U.S. dollars." However, the total investment in the cloud is much higher than the above data estimates, because this part of the data does not reflect the private cloud in the environment of investment.

3. How many business resource management will the enterprise put into the cloud? According to McKinsey's research, 80% of organizations in North America are using cloud environments to plan and execute key applications in their projects, mostly through private cloud implementations. In these organizations, managers predict that 70%-75% of their applications will be placed in the cloud.

4. What is the payoff for the company by using the cloud? What is the difference between a private system and an external system? Compared to the existing platform, the cloud environment will save 30%-40% of the platform expenditure. Using external cloud services will help businesses save more money. Alternatives to using public cloud software services will save 60% to 70% of the cost of developing content applications that are customized to the enterprise.

5. Where is the potential risk of using the cloud? Using the cloud will raise the level of challenge to data protection, both in the public cloud environment and in the private cloud environment.

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