February 22, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Cost, but it isn't straight forward to quantify what it is.
The benefit of being able to spin up equivalent environmentsand to do so quickly more than pays for the cost of rearchitecting an application to use virtual tech.
Bandwidth depends on where you put stuff as does latency.
Shared infrastructure depends on what you pay for. You can specify dedicated hardware with some cloud providers.
Cloud gives you the opportunity to approach problems in a new way. If you approach the problem from the same angle as on premise tin then you will run into problems.
Data security in the cloud is a concern however encrypting the base storage, encrypting on the wire, being specific with firewall rules, isolating accounts used for different environments, infrastructure design makes it possible for the dedicated to produce something a damn sight more secure than the average on premise installation
February 27, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Gary Varga (2/22/2016)
Given that there are even cloud sandboxes for most things now it does beg the question why anyone would not use cloud hosts. There are issues that may need to be addressed, however, in all but the extreme scenarios I can see resolutions to availability, data protection and environmental control (including relinquishing it!!!).
Data protection isn't optional, and currently isn't available with a cloud server in the USA or any server to which any American company has access, no matter where in the world it is. If Microsoft lose their current court battle against the US government, cloud business will become very much smaller and probably some of the providers will go bust unless they can persuade their remaining customers to pay a lot more for access than they currently charge, since they will lose pretty well all their European,Turkish, Russian, Azerbaijanian custom (and probably a lot of others too).
Tom
February 28, 2016 at 2:11 pm
Safe harbour regulations are undergoing scrutiny at present.
There are quite a few businesses that thought the fact that business is ahead of regulations would mean that the legal aspect would be a fait accompli. They are somewhat perturbed to find that the law decides for itself what is appropriate within the current legal framework
March 9, 2016 at 4:42 pm
I've done both but I see it heading that way too.
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