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network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service
requirements. Usually cloud computing services are delivered by a third party
provider who owns the infrastructure. It advantages to mention but a few
include scalability, resilience, flexibility, efficiency and outsourcing non-core
activities.
Survey conducted by international data corporation (IDC) shows the strength of
cloud computing to be implemented in IT industry and gives the potential
inspiration to CSP. The section contains the survey related to the growth of
cloud, security aspect, cloud is the first priority to the vendors, revenue
report, future and current usage, state of cloud to the IT users and popularity
survey of cloud computing.
a) Cloud growth
The Table 1 shows the cloud growth from year 2008 to 2012 [4].
Table 1: Cloud Growth
Yea
Cloud
Total
IT
TotalCloud
200
$
$
$
4
201
$42
$B
$
9
G
27
7%
%
4%
The most compelling challenge for someone attempting to switch from their
existing computing module to the cloud is to ascertain how secure cloud
computing is. Aficionados of conventional computing often allege that the
extensive use of virtualization, which is a fundamental tenant of cloud computing,
only adds viable security risks. Virtualization software might be compromised
which could jeopardize the entire infrastructure which includes cloud computing,
storage and networking.
2. PERFORMENCE
Inherent cloud tenants that like increased availability, on-demand resource provisioning and
scalability are all designed to deliver peak performance and enhance the overall usability of
applications and data hosted in the cloud. The most common mistake that people make is
equating application performance issues with cloud computing environment. When a cloud
computing subscriber selects a cloud computing flavour not well aligned with their business
module, the performance is, at best, degraded. However, that does not mean that from time
to time some performance issues that are totally centric to cloud computing environment do
not arise.
3. COST
Some of the most important Non Functional Requirement (NFR) challenges are as
follows.
1. Security and Privacy
The main challenge to cloud computing is how it addresses the security and
privacy concerns of businesses thinking of adopting it. The fact that the valuable
enterprise data will reside outside the corporate firewall raises serious
concerns. Hacking and various attacks to cloud infrastructure would affect
multiple clients even if only one site is attacked. These risks can be mitigated by
using security applications, encrypted file systems, data loss software, and buying
security hardware to track unusual behavior across servers.
2. Service Delivery and Billing
It is difficult to assess the costs involved due to the on-demand nature of the
services. Budgeting and assessment of the cost will be very difficult unless the
provider has some good and comparable benchmarks to offer. The service-level
agreements (SLAs) of the provider are not adequate to guarantee the availability
and scalability. Businesses will be reluctant to switch to cloud without a strong
service quality guarantee.
3. Interoperability and Portability
Businesses should have the leverage of migrating in and out of the cloud and
switching providers whenever they want, and there should be no lock-in period.
Cloud computing services should have the capability to integrate smoothly with
the on-premise IT.
4. Reliability and Availability
Cloud providers still lack round-the-clock service; this results in frequent
outages. It is important to monitor the service being provided using internal or
third-party tools. It is vital to have plans to supervise usage, SLAs, performance,
robustness, and business dependency of these services.