Cloud Computing,Implementation and Key Considerations

 

Cloud computing is a significant evolution. It’s changing the way we think about how we deliver our computational infrastructure to end users. Determining which strategy is right for your organization depends on your key business goals, requirements, and IT capabilities. This webinar discusses key considerations that enterprise and government organizations need to take today to assess readiness for cloud computing, including: • Identifying the business drivers behind cloud computing initiatives. • Understanding your organizational readiness for cloud computing. • Establishing an open standards-based infrastructure. • Developing a comprehensive roadmap for making cloud a reality for your enterprise: o Building the business and technical case for cloud. o Developing a strategy around open source standards, products, and tools that aligns with your business goals. o Assessing organizational and infrastructure readiness. o Deploying a prototype cloud infrastructure. o Developing an actionable roadmap for enterprise implementation. The advent of the cloud for servicing individual users opens a whole new level of opportunity. Every user can now have a scalable and nearly infinite set of resources available for whatever they need to do. The impacts for IT infrastructures are stunning, but when this is applied to the individual, there are some specific benefits that emerge. Users’ digital activities are far more self-directed than ever before. Users demand to make their own choices about applications, services and content, selecting from a nearly limitless collection on the Internet. This encourages a culture of self-service that users expect in all aspects of their digital experience. Users can now store their virtual workspace or digital personality online. Virtualization has improved flexibility and increased the options for how IT organizations can implement client environments. Virtualization has, to some extent, freed applications from the peculiarities of individual devices, operating systems or even processor architectures. Virtualization provides a way to move the legacy of applications and processes developed in the PC era forward into the new emerging world. This provides low-power devices access to much-greater processing power, thus expanding their utility and increasing the reach of processor-intensive applications.

Cloud computing emerged from virtualization, this allowed more cost effective and efficient computing solutions that did not only changed how computing is done and how it works. Since computing needs are ever expanding new developments from cloud computing companies are expected with newly improved products and services. In recent years, security is one of the biggest concerns amongst cloud computing consumers but through the collaboration and development by different cloud computing companies, sandboxing is now the most accepted security technology for multi-tenant cloud. This safety measure separates data through a security cloak which can only be accessed by the owner and allowed users through the internet. Security breach still poses a threat but through the Sandboxing technology, the threats are minimized therefore giving tenants more acceptable ways in protecting their data and information.

Another development worth mentioning are the trends amongst cloud computing companies. These trends include lower fee for IaaS, which Amazon is currently on the top spot among cloud computing companies. Although most consumers migrated and adopted cloud computing for its “access anywhere, from any device” innovations, some are still after the savings they’ll have in the long run.

Most vendors, who compete in the cloud computing business are aware of what the competitors are best at and what their weakest point. This makes the business to expand and develop new technologies to put competitors at bay but only enough to keep the piece of the pie they already have. Concerns that consumers face are still the main priority of these cloud computing companies, these are security, service level agreement, consumer privacy and local, international law compliance.

Businesses and individuals who already have migrated to cloud computing still encounters issues which are real and perceived these concerns are broken down into several categories which helps in determining the root cause. Although, it is true that most of these concerns are customer created (due to lack of information and knowledge), these issues are still the number one priority of cloud computing companies and resolutions are being developed for customer satisfaction.

Google, the number one provider of free cloud computing solutions for individuals and businesses continuously develops a more user friendly interface for the betterment of their services. Mobility, is the number one requirement today, people are on the go and they need to access files, programs, data and applications where ever they go. This feature is still is the anchor of the ship, this makes the job be done on time without delays and issues. This is the number one requirement of businesses and individuals before they had migrated to cloud computing, as this is the premise cloud computing is developed in the first place.

The biggest concern amongst cloud computing companies is the limited wireless bandwidth for smartphones, tablets and all other devices that use wireless technology. As of today, wireless devices outnumber the available wireless bandwidth available. Since cloud computing is about mobility, this issue maybe the roadblock for cloud computing. But, as usual as these kind of issues arise there will be a solution but as for now, let’s see what the cloud computing companies are cooking and who will cook the best dish.