Cloud-Computing - Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

Cloud computing is the buzzword of the year 2008. One of the first commercial cloud services Amazon provides EC3 was deployed (elastic compute cloud) and S3 (storage cloud). Service like S3 uses Amazon provides a simple Web interface through which the user stores and retrieves data. The location that receives the data actually is transparent only for Amazon. For the user it is somewhere in the cloud. The customer pays only for byte is stored and transmitted, and in the cloud. It is true, on-demand system capable of scaling to every need. Ease of use and low cost of entry has attracted many companies, especially Web 2.0 startups.

The growing demand has its downside, too. At the same time refraining from Amazon or Google takes down thousands of companies. The company can do nothing but wait for the cloud returned. This scenario is similar to the power outage. Emergency generator can keep things running temporarily. In the case of a cloud outage is completely inaccessible data.

Do not place all your eggs in one basket. Strategically it makes sense that the use of cloud computing, but various third-party vendors. For document management, there are various providers, such as espresso, Zoho, etc. .. CRM systems are provided by 37Signals, SalesForce.com, SugarCRM. Choice of different manufacturers for different tasks, reduces dependence and the risk of damage. Many companies offer access to its service in other clouds, such as SalesForce.com, Facebook, OpenSocial. As the fall of SalesForce, users can access documents on Expresso outside SalesForce.