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Positive / Negative Impact of Cloud Computing?

Hello all. Bit of help needed, I'm coming up with a list of positive and negative impacts in terms of Cloud Computing for small to medium businesses. To be honest even large businesses.

Wondered if anybody could just pop up with a few.

Many thanks!

Reply 1

Stonebridge

Original post by Bubzeh

What have you come up with so far yourself?

Reply 2

Bubzeh

Original post by Stonebridge

What have you come up with so far yourself?

Well I've listed a few, for instance, shared storage, accessing content on the go, backing up files, those type of things, however, I'm struggling a little with the impact of them.

Reply 3

uberteknik

RISK:

Third party becomes responsible for your data security. i.e. You are not in sole control of your own data. Once hacked, lots of businesses affected.
Third party has limited liability.
Single point failures: i.e. Network or service provider network goes down, business is at risk.
Service provider could cease trading with little or no notice.
Susceptible to price hikes, mergers, acquisitions.
Much more difficult to migrate between service providers.

Reply 4

uberteknik

RISK:

Third party becomes responsible for your data security. i.e. You are not in sole control of your own data. Once hacked, lots of businesses affected.
Third party has limited liability.
Single point failures: i.e. Network or service provider network goes down, server failures etc. business is at risk.
Service provider could cease trading with little or no notice.
Susceptible to price hikes, mergers, acquisitions.
Much more difficult to migrate between service providers.

Reply 5

trident3

Positive impacts - see what the cloud providers state, and decide for yourself if what they are saying makes sense.

e.g. see aws.amazon.com www.hpcloud.com etc.

aws and hp offer trial accounts....

T3

Reply 6

Bubzeh