Cloud Computing is a very common word heard among the technical people these days. What is really exciting about it? Cloud is used synonymously to the internet. It is not that we have not been using internet before the word cloud computing came into limelight. The new idea is about using internet to provide Infrastructure as a Service(Iaas). The essence of cloud computing is to provide high processing capabilities and storage capabilities to the end user. The best part here is the end user need not own these capabilities but they are priced according to their utility. This kind of set up enables small and medium enterprises to have high performance and processing capabilities on ad hoc basis without actually owning the infrastructure.
This kind of set up opens up an opportunity for many entrepreneurs to try their ideas at a nominal price, where they can use the processing and storage capabilities as utilities and only pay according to the usage. This is a very good idea to start off, but as the organization grow the requirements of processing and storage will also grow. What about the sustainability of the process on cloud? How safe and reliable are the processes? Can someone completely bank upon the cloud to run their business to whatever extent the organization’s business grow? Is there any threshold after which the organization cannot depend on the cloud but has to switch to their own infrastructure?
These are the issues we need to really understand before starting off with using the technique for the organization. The reliability and long term sustainability of the process is to be assessed before initiating the process.
