Three Considerations for Public and Private Cloud Computing

Grazed from Virtual.com. Author: Dustin Smith.

While cloud computing solutions continue to grow in popularity, many companies are still asking, “Is a public or private cloud the right option for me?” According to Cloud Tech News, the cloud market is expected to grow to $121 billion by 2015, which suggests a 26 percent annual growth rate.

A good chunk of this growth is expected to be in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service sector (IaaS), where businesses host their own SaaS environment and other critical infrastructure or application environments. This private cloud computing option has many advantages over public cloud computing, especially for larger companies who can afford the expense. With public cloud computing, you’ll need to worry about…

1. Potentially slow connections and latency. Data transfer rates from the public cloud provider to your organization is based on Internet speeds, so your application speed or data availability is limited.
2. Potentially weaker security. While public cloud providers certainly provide security, their SLAs will most certainly not make any concrete guarantees. If your organization handles sensitive data, such as healthcare records, credit card information, you may want to rethink public cloud usage.

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