The real concerns about Cloud infrastructure (as it is today)
While “ private clouds may not be the future †they are definitely needed today. Here are some of the top issues bothering some organizations which have been thinking about going into the cloud. Some of issues were based on Craig Bolding ’s talk on “Guide to cloud securityâ€. Unlike your own data center, you will never know what the cloud vendors are running , or how they backup, or what their DR plans are. They will say you shouldn’t care, but do you remember what happened to the Tmobile customer’s on Danger ? Uptime, availability and responsiveness is less predictable than in a self hosted environment. In most cases the cloud vendors may not even choose to let customers know about major maintenance if they don’t anticipate any issues. Organizations who manage their own infrastructure would always try to avoid doing two major changes which have interdependencies. Multi-Tenancy means you may have to worry about a noisy neighbor . Muti-Tenancy could als