The prominence of cloud computing is here to stay and the same has been reiterated by the statics over and over again. The market which was pegged at $46 billion in 2008 has been calculated to treble over $150 billion by 2014. This shows the amount of resource allocation that is taking place in the markets at present. Further surveys have shown that around 30% of the first 1000 global companies are giving serious thought to cloud, either through fresh investments or expanding their current facilities. Now, all these figures look convincing but what actually makes them up? In short, why as user would an organization opt for Cloud hosting and secondly, even if it does so, what points should be paid heed to?
It is irrelevant to say that a thorough research and a SWOT analysis will be the perfect jig. But then outlining the business relevance and their requirements is the second part of the analysis. Almost all the companies have their Internet presence for it has become a prerequisite even before its physical existence. Cloud hosting will be an inevitable part for the IT and ITES sector. Similarly, every organization is bound to have an IT section. Not necessary all will require a cloud hosting service but most of them would.
It is always advisable to chalk out the plan of which all services to be put on the cloud hosting. For instance, the organizations dealing in on-line sales and e-commerce, it would be better to base the portals and other functions on the service. This would let in the smoothness required while the external applications are at work.
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Next, a response mechanism has to be formulated with the service provider. At times, the service is bound to go down given the unforeseen technical snags or may be due to technical maintenance. Such times, which may happen to be of prime business, must not hamper the revenues or even functioning of the organization. Such Pre-Agreement must be well crafted and thought of keeping the business/ operation plan in cognizance. The Cloud hosting service provider ought to put forth such flexibility and elasticity so that at no time, the organizational interests are hampered.
Further, there are different types of cloud hosting available. The organization after having done the above pre-order enumerations must decide over the type actually needed. This would also require a fore sightedness where the organization’s trajectory and vision might to put to test. Although, migrating from one type of hosting to another will never be an issue but it is advisable to keep them in considerations.
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The user, in most of the cases a company must get through a background check of the service provider. The kind of services and their quality will be important in choosing the preferred provider. With this comes the pricing issue. As of the present structure, cloud hosting does not have any upfront infrastructural cost and is based on the usage. If the interested client is calculative enough of the usage, it may be best for them to keep a tab on their usage and pay for the bill accordingly. This would actually provide a non-opaque pricing structure and save the precious resources of the client.
These along with the technical know-hows of the services shall suffice to decide on the cloud hosting that would be best required by an organization.
