{"id":16990,"date":"2013-04-22T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:16:57","slug":"pitalls-of-using-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/pitalls-of-using-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pitfalls of Cloud Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are Cloud solutions for practically everything you can think of, but Cloud isn\u2019t right for every problem, and in some areas, Cloud is definitely <em>not<\/em> the right solution. 2013 brought with it the certainty that <strong>the Cloud is not a fad<\/strong>. It\u2019s passed the hype tests, and we\u2019ve kicked the tires.<\/p>\n<p>If we were to plot the Cloud on IT analysts Gartner\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/research\/methodologies\/gartner-hype-cycle\">Hype cycle<\/a> of technology, we\u2019d have to pin it somewhere between the \u2018Trough of Disillusionment and the \u2018Plateau of Productivity.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, that\u2019s not to say that Cloud should be accepted with open arms. In short, the Cloud is not the answer to every question, but it <em>is<\/em> the answer to quite a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/cloud-hosting-how-does-it-work\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: Cloud Hosting: Is It the Right Choice for Your Business?\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cloud Hosting: Is It the Right Choice for Your Business?<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/cloud-hosting-how-does-it-work.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-11159 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/cloud-hosting-how-does-it-work.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">Cloud Hosting: Is It the Right Choice for Your Business?<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCloud hosting has become one of the most popular choices for businesses and individuals seeking reliable and scalable...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Cloud, get it right or pay the price<\/h2>\n<p>One of the advantages of joining the move to the Cloud in the \u2018Plateau of Productivity\u2019 stage is that thankfully many businesses have already gone ahead and triggered the potential traps and pitfalls (which we can now avoid).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that moment when the guy from Sales (with no clue about IT) gives (or gets) unauthorized access to sensitive information in a Dropbox account, or signs himself up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/go\/salesforce-crm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"js-aw-brand-link\" data-feed=\"B42ficdfgxBdPgo8l2lgaARm8lG1ptjY\">Salesforce\u2019s Cloud-based CRM<\/a> to handle his sales inquiries\u2026 without telling IT.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/pitalls-of-using-cloud\/safe-cloud-storage.jpg\" alt=\"safe-cloud-storage\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\"><\/figure>\n<p>The result: sensitive information <strong>is now in the Cloud with no organizational oversight and is susceptible to unauthorized exposure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The best solution is to <strong>get your teams up to speed on Cloud security<\/strong>, and to make sure that they\u2019re using the right sort of Cloud applications, i.e. the ones that are written for businesses, not consumers, before someone outside of the business spots the weaknesses.<\/p>\n<h2>Restoring Cloud backups can cause problems<\/h2>\n<p>Surely that\u2019s the whole point of Cloud \u2013 everything gets backed up by people who know their way around a copy of Tivoli Storage Manager or EMC\u2019s NetWorker. Well, that\u2019s true, but what happens when your Cloud provider goes belly up?<strong> Where is your data and who has access to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t back up your data directly from the Cloud, then make sure there\u2019s something written down in the Service Level Agreement (SLA), that says<strong> who owns the data, and what happens to it should everything go wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/pitalls-of-using-cloud\/restoring-cloud-backup.jpg\" alt=\"restoring-cloud-backup\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, if like many businesses you\u2019re using the Cloud as a place to backup your data, then make sure <strong>you can recover your data<\/strong>. You\u2019d be surprised just how many businesses can\u2019t restore their data.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com\/blogs\/feature-stories\/symantecs-cloud-security-threat-report-shines-light-clouds-real-risks?om_ext_cid=biz_social3_EMEA_EMEA-All_twitter_All-EMEA,None,FY20-Q1,Blog,CSTR,EMEA,org\">survey<\/a> by Symantec on Cloud storage found that nearly a <strong>half of all enterprises (47%) had lost data in the Cloud and had to restore their information from backups<\/strong> with a staggering two-thirds of those organizations failing to recover data.<\/p>\n<h2>Do you know where your data is stored?<\/h2>\n<p>If your answer to the question \u2018Where\u2019s your data stored?\u2019 is something along the lines of \u2018it\u2019s in the Cloud,\u2019 then go to the back of the class now. There are a number of issues when it comes to storing data with a third party, and <strong>compliance is one of the big ones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/pitalls-of-using-cloud\/data-storage.jpg\" alt=\"data-storage\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fines for not knowing where your data is kept and how it is managed can be in the millions of dollars. In the UK the Financial Services Agency (FSA) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maplefinancial.co.uk\/fsa-fines-zurich-insurance\/\">fined<\/a> insurance business Zuric \u20ac2,275,000 (US$3,444,00) for <strong>failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to prevent the loss of customers\u2019 confidential information<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has the ability to levy fines of up to \u20ac500,000 (US$757,000) for breaches of the UK\u2019s Data Protection Act, and recently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-21160818\">fined<\/a> Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited \u20ac250,000 (US$379,000) following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Jurisdiction<\/h3>\n<p>If the data you are storing in the Cloud has any personal information, or any financial information, such as credit card data, then keep it in the country of origin, or face the consequences of a heavy fine.<\/p>\n<p>If in doubt keep it on the premises in a private Cloud. If you are unsure of the laws then <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heatmap.forrestertools.com\/\">Forrester<\/a> has published an interactive map of privacy and data protection laws for the majority of the major countries in the World.<\/p>\n<h2>Being efficient with your data<\/h2>\n<p>The main benefit of the Cloud is you only pay for what you use, but if you\u2019re not vigilant then you can end up <strong>paying for data that you don\u2019t use anymore<\/strong> and people who no longer work for you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple to set up an account on a Cloud service and then to add more users as they join in. Unfortunately, it\u2019s also easy to forget to delete the account when those users leave.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise it\u2019s also simple to keep throwing data at the Cloud. The Cloud just keeps on soaking it up and unlike a server-based solution it never spits back a message saying \u2018your mailbox is almost full.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/pitalls-of-using-cloud\/be-efficient-with-data.jpg\" alt=\"be-efficient-with-data\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\"><\/figure>\n<p>So sooner or later you\u2019ll find that you have 200 versions of the same email, 20 versions of the same PowerPoint presentation, and 30 copies of that amusing 50MB video. It all adds up and you will <strong>continue paying for every single byte to be securely stored and backed up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid this you either need to deduplicate your data before you send it to the cloud using something like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opendedup.org\/odd\/\">Opendedup<\/a> that deduplicates data as part of the service.<\/p>\n<h2>Be firm but be flexible<\/h2>\n<p>The reason cloud has been able to grow so fast, is all down to plastic. If the IT department isn\u2019t playing ball and has assessed a project to the bottom of the pile, with a delivery date sometime in 2015, then the answer for many users is to go native and buy a Cloud solution on the company card.<\/p>\n<p>However you can guarantee that your rogue IT buyer <strong>will never ask any of the questions your IT department would have asked <\/strong>when they choose an enterprise solution, nor will they have thought about all of the consequences if anything goes wrong?<\/p>\n<p>While burning the credit cards sounds like a good solution, a better solution is to have some flexibility and help from the IT department and to <strong>educate employees on the potential problems of the credit card Cloud solution. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, as we said at the start, Cloud is no longer a fad, but nor is it the answer to everything. So make sure that when you look for a Cloud solution you should always keep the potential pitfalls in mind and don\u2019t be blinded by the headline benefits.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are Cloud solutions for practically everything you can think of, but Cloud isn\u2019t right for every problem, and in some areas, Cloud is definitely not the right solution. 2013 brought with it the certainty that the Cloud is not a fad. It\u2019s passed the hype tests, and we\u2019ve kicked the tires. 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