Tuesday 7 May 2013

Some Issues Handled By Cloud Service Providers

By Mona Moody


The need for communication services has been evolving since the invention of the conventional telephony system. In the recent past, cloud service providers have embarked on vigorous campaigns to promote their services due to the underlying client interaction power. The corporate battlefield has been redefined by technology and adaptability to change is the only way an existing firm can hope to retain its competitive edge.

Cloud computing is still a new concept and a lot of research and a dedication of resources has to be pledged to reap its full benefits. The idea is to come up with a distributed system that will allow users to share pooled resources without discrimination. Above all, the implemented system should be in a position to satisfy user requests with minimal human assistance.

Remote access should be supported so that users can operate from heterogeneous thick or thin clients without experiencing technical hitches. The resources owned by the provider are geographically distributed but they appear as one pool to the customer. The customer makes use of resources such as processors, memory or files without knowing their physical location. Above all, the system must have a means of service restriction depending on the access rights of a user account.

Many terms have been coined to refer to abilities associated with a particular system. One model, known as the Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigm lets customers make use of programs stored on the servers by the provider. Platform as a Service(PaaS) model creates a multi developer environment that allows people to use programs developed by users like themselves.

Many deployment models have been declared based on the access restrictions of clouds. Private clouds will only be used by members of the organization registered as the owner. The holding facility could either be located at their premises or at another location, sometimes under the jurisdiction of a third party firm.

Groups of consumers affiliated to some given organizations use community clouds. Public clouds are meant for the general population and managed by business, academic or governmental organizations. These categories can also be combined in various proportions to form the hybrid clouds as long as some form of standardization is adopted to support application portability.

Clouds are founded on the mainframe and thin client approaches that gained grounds in the late fifties when digital computing was still in developmental stages. They have introduced higher reliability, better throughput and easier recovery in case of disasters that lead to extensive data loss at a node. The maintenance crew also has an easier time as compared to a scenario where applications to be serviced were located at every single computer in the system. Distributed networks have allowed firms to exploit distant opportunities such as low power charges in a particular state.

Many cloud service providers have been accused of being slack with addressing data security in their clouds. This has prompted them to adopt strict encryption techniques to reduce incidences of eavesdropping on data on transit. Security threats could also come from within the system in the form of malicious administrators. Despite all these challenges, this form of computing is gaining popularity and is projected to be a standard requirement for big firms in a few years time.




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