Technology has its share of disadvantages; cloud computingis no different. Although it’s promising, there are wrinkles that need to be leveled out. While some issues are predominantly technical in nature, there arealso issues pertaining to performance, security, organizational, etc. Talking about challenges, we made it our business to deal with them head on. For years now, we helped clients marry their businesses with emerging technologies suchas cloud computing but not without facing a few challenges along the way. Hereare some of them:
Security is a forever concern
Enterprise data is precious; it sometimes encapsulates thecore of a business. The cloud computing model calls for shared, third-party environment that immediately puts this data at risk. Thankfully, cloud computing vendors have come a long way in this direction and they now have ways to safe-guared this data in a secured, private environment. Most providers offer sophisticated end-to-end security, privacy protection, etc. Number of clients who now use this model increases each day. Companies like Amazon and Citigroup are now implementing SaaS solutions to deal with massive operational and financial transactions respectively.
Data Compliance,Location and Integration
We covered the challenges businesses now face with respectto Big Data. For a business, storing data on a cloud would mean that it usuallyhas a steady relationship with one or two vendors in marketing alreadyfragmented with plenty of vendors and bursting at its seams. Multiple vendors usually deal with a client in that case and that would mean that businesses have to deal with data scattered scattered across clouds. On top of this, add government regulations concerning data storage and use, specific geographic jurisdictions,and huge data integration challenges.
It isn’t easy, is it?
Service Level Guarantees
Enterprise applications are critical ones which need vendors to support through service level agreements. A large organization with anon-site support usually has an IT department that takes care of issues pertaining to IT. In the cloud, the vendors take control of most of these IT operations and hence clients would need some sort of guarantees that their issues are resolved immediately or within promised TAT (Turn Around Time). For small and medium level enterprise orbusiness applications, plenty of vendors already provide service levelguarantees. For the large enterprise applications such as Infrastructure –as- a-Service, for instance, sound and established service level guarantees are still lacking. This should keep these applications from migrating to cloud until something drastic happens.
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