Cloud computing has become the main area of growth in IT expenses,
and organizations must adapt to the changes it brings in order to maximize their
overall output.
Cloud computing enables on-demand,
convenient network access to a configurable set of computation resources such
as storage, network, applications, servers and services, that are rapidly and
easily provisioned and given out, with little management effort or service
provider interaction. Computing in the cloud is majorly used in a commercial settings and
focuses on the provision of on-demand IT infrastructure.
How
Is Cloud Computing Changing the World
The
role of cloud computing is significant in a variety of areas such as the
virtual worlds, social networks, search engines and innovation, all of which
affect almost everything we do. The importance of cloud computing is currently
witnessed especially in areas where it was developed without giving a known
programming model, adequate service level agreement, open standard interface or
portability of applications. Setting a clear and concise set of
objectives is paramount to a company that is adopting a good cloud computing
technology. Objectives range from the top of the line benefits such as gains of
productivity, to an overall lowering of operational cost.
Cloud computing provides various benefits that most
organizations don’t take into consideration, and which also happen to be the
major objectives that companies need to pay more attention to, especially in
their bid to integrating to the cloud and thus stepping into the future.
Providers of cloud
technology offer their customers an on-demand basis unlimited resources for
their applications. But this provision of unlimited resources is not the only
point to note for scalability, however the data flow and control of those
services and applications is implemented and designed as well.
The implementation of cloud
computing that does not consider its full range of effects can lead to a lower
performance. This is usually grouped under provisioning, which results in low
thought put in handling high response times. It can also lead to higher cost as
in over provisioning, as a result of the low rate of utilization of resources.
The 7 Major Benefits of Cloud Computing Explained
The seven major objectives
that an organization should keep in mind when they want to adopt cloud
computing in order to achieve the complete benefits that the cloud brings to
the company are discussed below. If you haven’t really considered all of these
already, prepare to have your business vision expanded.
1. Intrusion Detection
Cloud
Computing comes with its automatic built-in security: conducting an assessment
independently in order to verify that the intrusion detection and access
control technologies are properly in place is easy as pie. This may even
include a traditional perimeter security medium, in conjunction with the
security model of the domain.
Some
of the forms of traditional perimeter securities includes the protection of
individual components to ensure their inability to exploit through patches of
security deployment, the restrictions of physical access to devices and networks,
disabling any services and ports that are not in use, the monitoring of audit trails
and the use of Antivirus software. Cloud computing will enable you to do all
that easier.
2. Focus on Business will Increase
Often enough, companies do not include business
capability and agility as a part of the objectives of their cloud computing. A
company with the foresight to channel their strength toward the core business while
giving the other aspects of the business to a cloud service provider sets the
foundation for a major growth in business. This in turn enables the scalability
of funds for business requirements, because now there is the availability of a flexible
infrastructure that will facilitate a good user experience through a robust and
agile cloud service.
3. Time to Market Will Be Reduced
Cloud computing provides platforms that not only gives
network and computing resources, but also offers the framework to enterprise:
features like authorization, workflow, interface and authentication. The overall
time it will take an organization to market (conduct sales activity) has been
reduced because of the use of this framework. Cloud computing can give
businesses more time for getting clients, by saving time on all these tasks.
4. Increase in Business Agility
Some business cloud providers empower
users to make effective changes to functionality through configuration options.
This will greatly reduce the dependency on IT development teams, and in turn will
result in an increased business agility.
5. Reduction in Operating Cost
The automatic integration of applications in a company’s architecture
within the cloud results in little overhead cost of support and maintenance.
This seamless integration also reduces the cost of software and its licensing, as
well as the hardware cost, because cloud computing service is a pay as you use
type of model. There is the capacity of predicting operating expenses with
little cost of development, and even with little or no capital expenses. There
is also the reduction of cost for maintaining IT infrastructures, brought on by
the automatic software and security updates of the cloud.
6. Reduction in Cost of Development
The adoption of cloud computing no doubt ensures a faster
time-to-market and, most importantly, it reduces the total cost of ownership
(TCO) significantly: from saving costs related to the development of application,
to the development of newer capabilities and the general maintenance.
7. Security Objective
A
company adoption of cloud computing comes with the laying out of some
security objectives. These are examples of the most important such objectives
to consider setting for yourself, as well as demonstrations of what cloud
computing can enable you to achieve.
·
Protecting
the postal service data from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, and monitoring. This may include the
support for identity management in a way that will allow the Postal Service to
enforce access and identity control policies for the authorized users that are accessing
cloud services. The postal service will also have the ability to access the
data selectively available to every other users.
·
To protect
the data resources from any threat to the supply chain. This includes
maintaining and verifying
the reliability and trustworthiness of the CP, as well as the assurance of security
that is associated with the software and hardware which are used.
·
To
prevent the unauthorized access to the infrastructural resources of cloud
computing, such as the
implementation of security domains which possess a logical separation. For
example, this may include the separation of the workload of postal service that
is running on same server controlled by a virtual machine monitor in a
multitenant environment, and applying the use of default for the configuration
of no-access.
·
To
design and develop a web application that will be deployed in the cloud, for
any Internet threat model, as well as inscribe security measures into the
development process of the software.
·
To
protect the Internet browsers from any potential attacks that might mitigate
the security of the end users. This is perfected by taking the necessary
measures to secure personal computers devices, which are connected to the
internet by implementing patches, personal firewalls and security software on a
more regular maintenance schedule.
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