Harrogate Breakfast - 20th February
Please join us for our Harrogate Breakfast meetingIn its most simple form ‘Cloud Computing’ can be described as the delivery of IT resources over the internet as opposed to hosting or operating the services in-house. Typically this can include applications and services such as email and storage and the hardware on which they operate. The key to Cloud Computing is undeniably flexibility – applications and services can be purchased on an as-needed basis and the capital cost of hardware, including support is avoided. So with the continuing downturn in the market, widespread cost-cutting and the availability of high speed internet, the ‘Cloud’ would appear to the way forward or is it?
One of the biggest obstacles in the adoption of new technologies is trust and security and ‘Cloud Computing’ is no different. To those who are accustomed to their data being available from an on-site server the thought of letting this control disappear to the sky can be daunting one. And then there’s the security – who has access to my data, what will happen to my data and service in the event of a disaster and is my data stored securely?
Fear not though. Reputable cloud providers should have strong business continuity
and data recovery solutions in place to ensure that service can be maintained
in the event of a disaster and cloud providers should also ensure that applications available as a service via
the cloud are secure by implementing testing and acceptance procedures for outsourced
or packaged application code.
Lee Evans, Managing Director of Vital Technology Group looks to provide an unbiased
and hopefully non-technical overview of some of the main benefits and downsides
of the so-called “cloud”!
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