Points to Consider While Switching to Cloud Computing

Abhishek Ghosh

By Abhishek Ghosh May 16, 2013 6:08 am Updated on May 16, 2013

Points to Consider While Switching to Cloud Computing

Points to Consider While Switching to Cloud Computing should be given importance for both web applications and enterprise applications, simply to save money. All converging towards to a scenario where the data in cloud are as if far away from the user and resources are hidden – they are not physical and measurable as in the past, like users were used with dedicated servers and racks in data centers for smaller customers. Obviously if a person work as small, medium and large IT service provider is having issues to explain to their customers the benefits of cloud, why they should dispose of their infrastructure in order to become completely virtual or why they should not opt for Cloud infrastructure. So, we need to consider while switching to Cloud Computing.

Introduction to the Points to Consider While Switching to Cloud Computing

Before we begin discussing the major points to consider while Switching to Cloud Computing, we must clarify certain things discussed before. There are listed here as numbered hypelinks :

We think that there are thousands of small retailers, businesses or professionals who manage the IT sector of so many other small and medium enterprises, they are often of local importance only. In this article we will provide 4 points that can be used with the clients, argued, for whom cloud computing suits their needs and dispel their doubts.

Points to Consider While Switching to Cloud Computing

The interest is to have the same amount of resources on their own dedicated server or in general the physical infrastructure is the traditional thought. In this case, much depends on the type of hypervisor that we use for infrastructure, today more are KVM, VMware and Xen and a direct mapping hardware resources are always guaranteed, providers provide 1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores and so on near completely dedicated way. Explain to your interested party that resources are allocated exclusively for them and like a dedicated server, a virtual instance also guarantees the same performance, you rarely notice the decrease in performance compared to a physical machine. Good practice to provide a direct test of the applications used by the customer in the cloud, to show the same performance, noting that the benefits, in terms of power are different : in the cloud may decide to modify its “dedicated server” in real time, without having to do anything if you do not even log into the control panel. Not only that, many customers do not realize the convenience of being able to build a real network in the cloud, with costs unthinkable with traditional, but perfectly sustainable if we speak of virtual components. Typical example is a load balancer that balances the load upstream of virtual instances. You can use these tools to convince your client to have equipment that, if purchased for the physical infrastructure, would cost far more.

The last point to must remember that security in cloud computing is doubtful.