Cloud computing concept

Cloud computing will soon become reality, and this will force the IT professionals to quickly adapt the meaning of this technology. As a result of socio-economic situation continues to experience very rapid revolution that gave birth to cloud computing, where technology is needed for speed and reliability over the previous technology that this technology will reach the level of investment in terms of cloud service is quick and easy.
Cloud was present in front of us today, but what's that cloud? where tujuanya? and what are the risks? and how IT organizations prepare for this? That question will be present at least by some practitioners or applicants IT, Cloud computing on dasaranya are using Internet-based services to support business process. Cloud service usually has several characteristics, including:
Deploy rapidly, so that means instant for quick implementation.

    
* Later on the start-up costs of this technology may be very low or absent and there is also no capital investment.
    
* Cost of service and usage will be based on a commitment that does not fix.
    
* This service can easily upgrade or downgrade quickly without both of Penalty.
    
* Service will use a method for multi-tenant (Many customers within 1 platform).
    
* Ability to customize the service will be limited.
Cloud technologies will give the user a contract for service on 3 levels:

    
* Infrastructure as Service, this includes Grid for virtualized server, storage & network. Examples like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service.
    
* Platform-as-a-service: this case focuses on the application which in this case allows developers to not think about the hardware and keep its focus on application development tampa to worry about operating systems, infrastructure scaling, load balancing, and others. His example has been implemented and this is Microsoft's Azure Force.com investment.
    
* Software-as-a-service: This focuses on the application premises is a Web-based interface accessible via a Web Service and Web 2.0. example is Google Apps, SalesForce.com and social networks like FaceBook application.
Some investors are still trying to explore the adoption of this technology cloud to be business as Amazon and Google already have a special offer on for cloud technology, Microsoft and IBM also has invested millions of dollars for this.
Judging from this trend we can predict the future, a technology standard will be simpler because the availability of many cloud services. So what are the risks?
As was said as a business service, with the cloud technology you should know and make sure what you paid and what you are fully invested it for your needs using this service. You have to look at some parts, namely:

    
* Service level - Cloud providers may not be consistent with the performance of the application or transaction. This requires you to understand the service level you get on the transaction response time, data protection and speed of data recovery.
    
* Privacy - Because someone else / another company also hosting your data probably will be out or in reading by the U.S. government can happen without both your knowledge or approve of you.
    
* Compliance - You must also consider the regulation of the business you have, in this case theoretically cloud service providers are expected to equate the level of compliance for data storage in the cloud, but because the service was still very young you are expected to be careful in terms of data storage.
    
* Data ownership - Is your data still belongs to you so that data stored in the cloud? This question may be a little weird, but you need to know such things happened to her Facebook are trying to change its terms of use aggrement who question this.
    
* Data Mobility - Are you able to share data between cloud services? cloud, and if you terminate your relationship how to get your data back? What format will be used? or can you ensure coffee from her data has been erased?
For a service that is still considered critical to your company, the best advice is to ask this question all the details and get all the details in a state commitment in writing. What does the Smart Company at this time?
There are many opportunities in IT organizations specifically to promote the service cloud. Many organizations are trying to add this firut to the infrastructure before they have to take advantage of "cloud bursting"; especially if you need extra capacity, or extra activities, you can take advantage of cloud rather than to invest resources in-house.
Development / test and several similar activities is also a good place for the cloud, allowing you to reduce pengeleluaran per capita and cost of data centers that continue meingkat from the speed and uptime.
While the company does not shy reluctant to implement technology to cloud their data and save it as their own facilities to ensure good corporate policy would have saved with better, thus ensuring the process komputerasisasi on cloud as a system process that is needed will be more independent. Are you ready?
If your organization has just explore there are some cloud cloud technology is already well-established service and can be considered such as e-mail service. However for security problems, by developing your internal infrastructure into cloud model will be better.
In this way the IT role now played a part in this business model needed for today's economy. How do you improve the speed and uptime? and how you can get business support operation with a bit and spending a fix?
The first step you should do is learn from the cloud service contract system. make sure every process to be simple, it can be repeated again and add value to your business.
Second, you must identify what services you can use in the cloud and which should be internal. This is very important for you to know about the system and service cores that can be utilized by your business. and would recommend that you categorize your business based on some element of risk from the use of cloud services.
The final step, you have to do sourcing strategy to get a very low cost, but it has scalability and flexibility for your business needs. This includes consideration of the ownership and mobility of data protection, compliance and some elements, as well as traditional IT contract

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