Cloud Computing has gained popularity over the period and many businesses have released and achieved the benefits of an effective cloud strategy. As cloud computing has an impact on the IT industry, it has developed few misconceptions or myths over the period. These myths and misconceptions have been usually derived from the confusion and lack of understanding of cloud services by the businesses. Here is the list of most common myths in cloud computing:
- Cloud is insecure: This is one of the most common myths among the people as security is a common concern for every business and organizations. It has a sensitive data which is especially true for public clouds where all the clients on the cloud share the computing resources. The cloud providers must establish a strong security infrastructure to meet the industry and organization security standards and requirements. The layered security infrastructure along with the surveillance system, firewalls against the DDoS attacks. Security is the primary concern for all the cloud providers and hence should provide enhanced security measures at all the levels like datacenter, hardware, software, and firewall. There should be routine security assessments and ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
- Cloud has limited customization capabilities: Many cloud providers can provide single custom cloud solutions but in reality, there is a wide range of cloud computing services is available. You have the flexibility to choose among the public, private and hybrid cloud solutions available or you can use the combination of deployment methods depending on your needs. Additionally, there is an option to choose among the types of operating modules including Software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). With these options, customers also have the facility to choose with the combination of services to meet the requirements.
- Public Cloud Services are inexpensive: Public cloud will always have the flexibility to save money with the model as the ‘pay-as-you-go’ model in the public cloud. It is important to analyze your requirements and understand these type of model and then determine the cloud models that is the best fit. Pay-as-you-go model works best for the short term needs while for the long term needs you should analyze the resources in advance. However, an application that constantly consumes resources can benefits best from the private cloud solution against the pay-as-you-go model. You must select the service that is financially feasible and has optimal performance.
- Only large enterprises can fully utilize the cloud: The cloud computing has a large range of solution in its pocket. Large enterprises have incorporated the cloud into their system on a bigger scale, and hence smaller companies remain deterrent for effectively using the cloud services. Properly using and analyzing the requirements is really important and then selecting the cloud services that meet those needs is wise.
- Migrating Application to the cloud is a complex task: Rebuilding the application developed in-house take considerable amount of time and many applications that will not rebuild meaning that they are dependent on the existing infrastructure. Many cloud hosting service providers allow to incorporate the existing applications and tweak some of the settings to meet the required service. You can opt to migrate some processes to the cloud and run them in parallel with the other processes on your infrastructure.
