Cloud Computing Technology (an approach)

Cloud computing will soon become reality, and this will force the IT professionals to quickly adapt the meaning of this technology. As a result of socio-economic situation continues to experience very rapid revolution that gave birth to cloud computing, where technology is needed for greater speed and reliability of the technology will advance so that this technology will be reached on the level of investment in terms of cloud service is quick and easy.Cloud was present in front of us today, but what is a cloud? where tujuanya? and what are the risks? and how IT organizations prepare for this? That question will be present at least by some practitioners or applicants IT, Cloud computing on dasaranya are using Internet-based services for support to business process. Cloud service usually has several characteristics, including:Deployed very quickly, so quickly means instant for implementation.

    * Later the start-up costs of this technology may be very low or absent and no capital investment.
    * Cost of service and usage will be based on a commitment that does not fix.
    * This service can easily be upgraded or downgraded quickly without any Penalty.
    * This service will use the method of multi-tenant (Many customers within a platform).
    * Ability to customize the service will be limited.Cloud technology will give the contract to the user for the service on 3 levels:

• Infrastructure as Service, this includes Grid for virtualized server, storage & network. Examples such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service.
• Platform-as-a-service: this focuses on the application which in this case allows developers to not think about the hardware and keep its focus on application development without having to worry about operating systems, infrastructure scaling, load balancing and others. Examples that have implemented this is Microsoft's Azure Force.com and investment.
• Software-as-a-Service: This focuses on the application premises Web-based interface that is accessible through Web Services and Web 2.0. example is Google Apps, SalesForce.com and social networks like FaceBook application.

Some investors are still trying to explore the adoption of this cloud to be business as Amazon and Google already has a special offer on for the cloud, Microsoft and IBM also has invested millions of dollars for this.Judging from this trend we can predict the future, technology standards will be more modest because of the availability of many cloud services.So what are the risks?As was said as a business service, with the cloud you should know and make sure what you are paying for and what you invest entirely is to your needs using this service. You must pay attention to some parts, namely:

•  Service level - Cloud providers may not be consistent with the performance of the application or transaction. This requires you to understand the service level that you get on the transaction response time, data protection and speed of data recovery.
• Privacy - As others / other companies also make the possibility of hosting your data will come out or read by U.S. government can occur without your knowledge or approve of you.
• Compliance - You also must consider the regulation of business you have, in this case the theoretical cloud service providers are expected to equate the level of compliance for data storage in the cloud, but because the service is still very young, you are expected to be careful in terms of data storage.
• Data ownership - Is your data still belong to you so that data stored in the cloud? This question may be a little weird, but you need to know such things happened to her up the attempt to alter its terms of use aggrement who question this.
• Data Mobility - Are you able to share data between cloud services? and if you terminate the relationship cloud how you get your data back? What format will be used? or can you make sure a copy of his data has been erased?

For a service that is still quite critical for your company, the best advice is to ask this as the details and get all the details in a state commitment in writing.What the Smart Company today?There are many opportunities in IT organizations specifically to promote cloud service. Many organizations are trying to add this firut to the infrastructure they had before to take advantage of "cloud bursting"; especially if you need extra capacity or extra activities, you can take advantage of the cloud rather than invest resources in-house.Development / test and several similar activities is also a great place to cloud, allowing you to reduce pengeleluaran per capita and cost of data center continues rose from the speed and uptime.While the company is not shy reluctant to implement the cloud for their data and save it as their own facilities to ensure good corporate policy would have saved with better, so make sure komputerasisasi on cloud processes as a system process needed to be more independent.Are you ready?If your organization has just explore there are some cloud-cloud service that has been well established and can be considered such as an e-mail service. But for security problems, by developing your infrastructure into an internal cloud model will be better.In this way the IT role now played a role in terms of business model needed for today's economy. How do you increase the speed and uptime? and how you can get business support operation with little and spending a fix?The first step you should do is learn from the cloud service contract system. make sure every process to be simple, can be repeated and an added value to your business.Second, you must identify what services can be utilized in the cloud and which should be internal. This is very important for you to know about the system and service cores that can be utilized by your business. and should you categorize your business based on some element of risk from the use of cloud services.The last step, you have to do sourcing strategy to get a very low cost, but it has scalability and flexibility for your business needs. This includes consideration for the protection of data ownership and mobility, compliance and some elements, as well as traditional IT contract.