Savvy IT leaders are beginning to understand they must look beyond the “big three” – outages, privacy and security – when weighing cloud computing risks
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of their computing, applications and data storage requirements to this emerging destination. According to Gartner, the industry is poised for strong growth through 2014, when worldwide cloud services revenue is projected to reach $148.8 billion.
This groundswell of enthusiasm for cloud computing is not unwarranted, as the benefits are extremely compelling. The opportunity to reduce IT costs dramatically as well as boost operational efficiency, corporate collaboration and business agility are major drivers. Additionally, emerging service options offer a plethora of choices, encompassing infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service.
Early adopters of cloud technologies have viewed the migration as a business imperative, despite the potential “dark lining” of service outages and exposure to security and privacy risks. It’s clear, however, that cloud service providers understand the initial hesitation that companies are experiencing in trusting crucial information assets to them, and they continue to work diligently to assuage concerns with stringent service level agreements addressing uptime, privacy and security.
Headline-grabbing stories about recent prolonged service outages at Amazon, Google and Intuit only reinforce that disruptions in the cloud can and will occur, which means that service quality and data availability will persist as front-and-center issues. While encryption remains the baseline for securing data when moving to the cloud, other questions should be asked about how data is migrated and accounted for as well as additional risks that must be addressed before entering into a relationship with any cloud service provider.
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Source: information-management.com
By: Shannon Smith
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