Cloud
Computing Challenges
Despite its growing influence, concerns regarding cloud computing still remain. In
our opinion, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and the model is worth
exploring. Some common challenges are:
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1.Data Protection:
Data Security is a crucial element that warrants
scrutiny. Enterprises are reluctant to buy an assurance of business data
security from vendors. They fear losing data to competition and the data
confidentiality of consumers. In many instances, the actual storage location is
not disclosed, adding onto the security concerns of enterprises. In the
existing models, firewalls across data centers (owned by enterprises) protect
this sensitive information. In the cloud
model, Service providers are responsible for maintaining data security and
enterprises would have to rely on them.
2.Data Recovery and Availability:
All business applications have Service level
agreements that are stringently followed. Operational teams play a key role in
management of service level agreements and runtime governance of applications.
In production environments, operational teams support
- Appropriate clustering and Fail over Data
Replication
- System monitoring (Transactions monitoring, logs
monitoring and others)
- Maintenance (Runtime Governance)
- Disaster recovery
- Capacity and performance management
If, any of the above mentioned services is
under-served by a cloud provider, the damage & impact could be severe.
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