Before adopting this technology, companies should know that they will be surrendering all the company's sensitive information to a third-party cloud service provider. This could potentially put the company to great risk. Hence, they need to make absolutely sure that they choose the most reliable service provider, who will keep the information totally secure.
Well security and encryption is great concerns which make companies think twice before they moving to cloud. Specially having confidential data on cloud which is not secure is not a good idea for large companies.
@DrT – it's a great option for companies to move only the required data to the cloud. I see it as an efficient way of managing their data. This will even assist them to manage cost on storage.
This is good illustrations of Hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud works best for the services that needs to be consumed by the public. If you have a specific application and your employees are only the users you may prefer to keep it in your private could to get best performance.
The actual problem is what makes cloud services so appealing the use of virtual servers. Virtual machines (VM) on the same physical server are vulnerable to a malicious VM also on that physical server. The research team was able to steal email encryption codes that were stored on a different VM.
Cost of migration and implementation is a key factor which holds a company from using cloud services. Using a hybrid cloud an organization can provide and manage some resources in-house and others provided externally, which will in turn reduce cost of storage etc.
Private cloud is a natural solution to many organizations as they are kept under the pressure of laws and regulations regarding data security and privacy. The more cloud implementation may eventually ease the regulations and that will speed up public cloud implementations. However at this point while organizations want to keep data in house they also want to get benefit of public cloud's elasticity, agility availability and chargeback which eventually reduce cost of delivering a solution. That leads everyone to hybrid solutions.
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