If you are planning to invest in
a cloud computing environment, you
are not alone. In the present era, majority of business owners prefer to invest
in cloud and data centre services in
order to provide their customers with improved services. Although the large
enterprises can plan to invest in personalized data centres, it’s hardly
possible for SMEs. However, in order to cater to their target audience in a
better way, they need to upgrade the quality of their services and products.
This is where a cloud solution seems to be the most reliable option.
With the emergence of big data, each and every company needs
a proper data storage facility in order to continue with their business
initiatives properly. Cloud is a cost effective solution to store all the
business critical data securely. But is it completely secure to store your
mission critical data in cloud? Well, that is where you need to do a thorough
research on your own business requirements and identify what kind of a cloud
solution can meet your needs. At the same time, you should also be aware of the
probable risk factors while investing in a cloud solution as this will help you
deal with the situations tactfully in future. According to the industry
experts, there are some aspects that you need to consider thoroughly and then
determine whether or not you should opt for a cloud based solution. Here are
two of the most relevant aspects of storing data in cloud that you should give
a thought well in advance –
·
Shared
access – If you decide to store data in a public cloud environment, then
this is one of the most vital aspects that you should consider. This is because
multi-tenancy is one of the core features of a public
cloud environment. This means multiple customers, belonging to
different domains, share the similar computing resources. If you are going to
store valuable business data in a shared server space, make sure you know all
the intricate details of a server. Additionally, consider using a VPN tunnel as it helps protect the public
cloud data, in order to
safeguard the valuable data perfectly.
·
Virtual
exploits – All the large cloud service providers use the technology of
virtualization. However, this holds the risks that are posed by virtual
machines. Moreover, there are certain exploits who target the visual server
hosts and the guests. Basically, there are four major virtual exploit risks
including guest to guest, server host only, guest to host and host to guest.
While these are the major probable risks, most of the times these are unknown.
Therefore, most service provider don’t count these in the risk model that they
plan to handle.
