Viewpoint On Cloud Computing - Collabera
Viewpoint On Cloud Computing - Collabera
Viewpoint On Cloud Computing - Collabera
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Risks & Challenges<br />
• Data security: top most concern in a public cloud, do cloud providers offer end to end<br />
Value. Accelerated.<br />
encryption, security and privacy protection<br />
• Data Control, Compliance & Integration: Key governmental regulations require certain<br />
data to be present within geographic boundaries and data within a single enterprise could<br />
be located in different data sources posing integration issues<br />
• Data Recovery: Ability to recover customer data in case of a disaster/emergency at the<br />
cloud data centres<br />
• Service Quality: Enterprises expect certain service levels and almost all cloud providers<br />
do not support all the SLAs currently<br />
Key Vendors Comparison<br />
As with any new trend, vendors both big and small are lining up with cloud-based/cloud-aware<br />
service offerings, the below chart tries to compare key vendors across each of the different cloud<br />
layers against key attributes. The players in this field and the vendor maturity are changing so<br />
rapidly that the following information is not an exhaustive list of all vendors and is current as of<br />
August, 2009.<br />
The comparison matrices are based on the following legend,
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