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What are the top challenges for cloud computing and IT infrastructure?
Cloud computing can require significant changes and/or additions to IT environments. What has your company's cloud computing initiatives made most challenging to IT infrastructure management at your organization?
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The challenge here is to make a good assessment of the value proposition and the risks that come along with it. There is a great appeal from a cost-perspective, but when you take InfoSec and compliance into account, it becomes clear that you need to have risk management analysis performed and a subsequent strategy from which you can make a well-informed decision.
Once that has been achieved, the next challenges presents itself in the form of what flavor of the cloud to use, the BC/DR implications, performance metrics, application development and customization, etc.
It appears that this is the next major evolution for IT infrastructure, but it is still in its early stages and needs to be evaluated thoroughly as we have all learned from experience with other technical wonders...
When a company is ready to move to a virtual private cloud, one of the biggest challenges we've seen is to look at the physical infrastructure and then translate that into the virtual architecture. While there are many factors that influence this decision, some key parameters are: the utilization rate of physical and then ultimately how the virtual environment will be used; applications dependencies; dynamic provisioning and dynamic resource allocation.
There is also the security angle to consider. In a blog post, our VP of product management, Eric Bozich, talks about the pros and cons of outsourcing the security of your data.
http://www.qwest.com/business/blog/Think%20Gig%20blog/securing-your-business-...
Hope this helps!
Beth – Qwest Business
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