CLOUDy with a chance of meatballs
Yes! You read it right! Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. But wait! I’m not here to talk about the movie with the same title name. Rather I’m here to talk about one of the most debatable and the current sizzling topics in the Information Technology world “Cloud Computing”. I don’t have to introduce what Cloud Computing is all about. Perhaps that is because all of us have heard it all before and probably there are masters of Cloud Computing out here. This “pay as you go” computing – allows businesses to lease computing resources as and when they are in need of it, information is shared over the network easily and blah blah … But what made me to think about this write up is that though it’s booming yet there have been few takers. Like many, I have serious concerns about the security.
How can anyone expect companies to give all their sensitive and confidential data to a black hole in the sky?
If you are thinking that cost-cutting is one of the major advantages of Cloud Computing then I guess you’re compromising your security of data with cost-cutting which is a serious issue to be thought about. By the way, cybercrime is on the march as online predators deploy armies of “botnets” and computers are hijacked without owner’s consent these days.
On a second thought, a lot of smaller companies and startups who don’t have a data security policy in place, and invest very little on security, cloud would be an attractive option to them. Complicating issues further, one can’t go and demand for a separate server or a processor for each and every individual customers. It’s a “virtual” machine – a slice of a machine with its own operating system that is partitioned off by the software from other customers. Ultimately, there is a sharing of processing and storage space. And so the analogy of the title :D
All said, Google will offer cloud-computing services designed specifically for U.S government agencies. Sounds paradoxical eh?