Cloud computing challenges

One can easily understand from previous discussion that it’s very beneficial for a company to adopt any of the ACT as per requirement. However it has been witnessed that majority of software companies in India have developed some kind of resistance in adopting the same in their work environment. This is more prevalent in small scaled industries. The resistance is because of following challenges/issues levied by ACT.

Challenges faced by ACT:

1.      Security Issues:
By any chance if intruder get access of cloud’s server or find vulnerability of cluster and start attacking them, it’s very difficult for small scaled organizations to take real-time steps against those attacks due to lack of sufficient funds, unavailability of trained human resources or Information security experts to fight against those.

2.      Data theft or misuse of data:
Data and information is the most important asset for all kind of industries. In spite of existence of strict policies and frameworks, companies find it very difficult to put confidential data in the hands of others. There are possibilities of data being misused by the hosting or cloud companies.

3.      Availability:
Cloud requires the availability of internet connectivity for the services to work. Good and reliable internet connectivity is not available in majority of countries. This puts restriction on various companies to use cloud for their daily operations and activities.

4.      Reliability

Reliability of cloud services heavily depends on good and reliable internet connectivity.

Security, downtime, poor network or connectivity etc. are very common issues facing by internet connectivity esp. in developing countries. So, it’s very hard for any company to just rely on cloud services

On top of above challenges, following are few other reasons that is hindering the acceptance of cloud and ACT.

1.    Lack of information – many companies does not have information or knowledge about what and how cloud computing or ACT can help them to perform better. This is more prevalent in small scaled industries due to lack of skilled manpower and information sources.

2.      Myths – companies have developed certain myths and wrong assumptions about this technology. Few of them are real challenges however many are just myths developed due to low quality information.