You
have already known the different benefits offered by the use of Cloud services
in your business’ daily operations. While these benefits abound, there are four
major ones that can never be denied: cost savings, reliability, manageability
and strategic edge. Albeit these benefits and advantages, you also need to know
that there are certain drawbacks that can be attributed to the use of these
Cloud-based services. The following are some of these drawbacks that you need
to know first so that you can quickly decide if these Cloud-based services
simply work best for you.
- Downtime
A
particular Cloud Service Provider or CSP usually works with a certain number of
clients every day and this is absolutely normal. However, it is important to
note that a CSP can also become overwhelmed with this kind of work setup
thereby creating technical outages in the process. The onset of these technical
outages can impact your business, making it temporarily suspended in the
process. Moreover, if internet connection becomes offline you will become
incapable of accessing your server, data and applications from the Cloud.
- Security
Storing
relevant data and files on external providers can always open up risks.
Remember that using Cloud computing services means giving your provider the
freedom to access and manipulate your business data. And since security is also
not that tight, hackers can break into the data of your business while doing
the same thing to others which are being hosted by your provider.
- Vendor
Lock-in
Many
CSPs give the promise of flexibility and integration when it comes to the use of
their services and switching Cloud has not completely evolved yet. His simply
means that when you are using the services of a particular provider, this makes
it difficult for you to move such services to other vendors. Integrating and
hosting present Cloud applications on a different platform can cause support
issues as well as throw up interoperability.
- Limited
Control
Normally,
it is the CSP that entirely owns, manages and monitors the Cloud
infrastructure. This means that a user only has a minimal control over
it. This means that the customer can only managed and control
applications, services and data that are operated on top of that and not the
infrastructure’s backend itself. Certain things like accessing and updating
serve shell and firmware management are not usually passed to the end user.
With
these drawbacks, you can now decide whether or not Cloud services work best for
you.
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