When it comes to moving the application services to the cloud and leaving your data in the data center some people claimed an appropriate analogy is using a bull horn to have a conversation with his/her teenager.
The new technologies and the models offers an another way to provide connection and the main factor is to get the cost effective high- speed network connections from cloud provider sites to the data centers. More over the services offered directly by hosting vendors companies and organizations are jumping in the competition to offer high speed connections.
Some new and efficient tactics of hybrid security if you are interested in closing down your work loads between the public and the private cloud, make sure it’s worth doing because hybrid means how you manage identity connectivity and more in short it means rethinking.
For the organizations and for the companies there are mainly three things which need to be consider when deciding that this model is for you or not and also considering options for high speed network connections.
These three things are as follows:
- Security
- Network bandwidth and performance
- Business continuity/disaster recovery
But before we continue lets quickly look at the three reasons why you need a cloud computing.
Now we shall proceed to these 3 main things first we go to security
Security: Keeping the information safe in transit and dealing with the access control is very much critical.
Settling some major issues, such as encrypting the data before it goes over the wire and making sure that the data doesn't travel outside the restricted geographic borders and it becomes also critical before you provision any new connections
Network bandwidth and performance: As we all know that the applications are very sensitive and depending upon the application's sensitivity to it’s latency, the cost to provide a given performance level over the network may eliminate some savings which is gained in moving the application to the cloud.
SLAs need to be clear and you make sure you have the best monitoring tools to check and validate these performances.
It is very important for all of us that we should not just look to the network specs but also to the real world and its performances as well . Benchmark over a period of time before moving the application to gain a base model.
Run some simulated transactions which are based on the benchmark and it will give you a sense of performance in new environment as well
Business continuity/disaster recovery: Managing the recovery plans becomes complex honestly speaking very much complex.The Map disaster scenarios prior to getting locked in.
Cable cuts and the floods happen. Be prepared for these sort of problems that when a network connection is impacted. Now recognize also that you have two different environments now and and for this you may require two sort of different plans and you also need different recover times as well .
Out of all the three things i have mentioned above business continuity/disaster recovery is the most complex one
