The benefits cloud computing can bring to any business are well known. The cost saving alone that eliminates the need for costly data centers is enough to make many people migrate over to the cloud. In a second you can scale up or scale down so you have instant access to extra space whenever you need it so you don’t have to spend money on saved unused space. When it comes to cloud hosting the security that’s used will be the most developed available in the technological world. Anyone who’s looking in cloud hosting is going to be thinking about security as they’ll want to know their data is safe in the cloud. Many IT professionals have to get out of the mind set of having the physical access to their data as this isn’t even needed with the cloud.
Although cloud hosting providers don’t like to advertise the fact we all know the cloud can go wrong. Millions of people all over the world lost access to their Gmail service several times on 2009 after Google experienced several server errors. Not having access to something as vital of email had devastating effects for millions of businesses. Despite this Google are adamant their faith should be placed in server virtualization and are going ahead with their cloud based operating system Google Chrome OS. Just two weeks before Christmas, online retail giants Amazon had European sites down for nearly an hour all because of an error in a data center. The entire reliability of the cloud is now really starting to be called into question, if these two global giants of the Internet can’t get it right it raises serious questions for the rest of us.
Both Google and Amazon have blamed their European based data centers for outages now and many people are starting to wonder if they really should be putting all their data chickens in this one data center basket.