Needless to mention, cloud computing comes with a volley of benefits like lower operational costs, ease of deploying and management coupled with the flexibility to scale while meeting the constant demands of availability and performance. On the flip side, there are certain challenges that enterprises are wary about, dissuading them to adopt a cloud platform.

1. Common Cloud Management
Challenges Faced By
Enterprises
By ServerAdminz

2. Preface
Needless to mention, cloud computing comes with a volley of benefits like lower
operational costs, ease of deploying and management coupled with the flexibility
to scale while meeting the constant demands of availability and performance. On
the flip side, there are certain challenges that enterprises are wary about,
dissuading them to adopt a cloud platform.

4. Concerns Over Privacy and Security
Topping the list of concerns is the issue connected to data security and
confidentiality. This is the case majorly with essential services being outsourced to
a third party. The concerns of data security crop up when the third party cannot
guarantee the integrity and privacy of your data along with its inability to vouch for
its compliance.

5. Trade-Off Between Actual Benefits and Business Goals
There are umpteen instances that demonstrate the benefits of cloud
implementations. However, on the other side, enterprises are constantly looking
at ways and means to derive the best out of the cloud investment. Extracting the
complete potential of a cloud while aiming to integrate it as a main segment of
their IT portfolio is the top most priority of enterprises.
Basically talking about return on investment (ROI), enterprises are constantly
scouting for affordable solutions that will register improvements attached to
quality, time, cost and profitability. Lack of such indicators in the cloud ROI model
is making organizations shy away from the cloud platform.

6. Quality of Service
Another important challenge that is discouraging managements to operate via
cloud is the unanimous opinion that SLAs provided by cloud service providers
aren’t enough to ensure the smooth functioning of their respective businesses.
Quality of service offered by cloud providers is linked to three important factors
including availability, scalability and performance. Cloud providers who refund the
enterprises when the cloud service is shut cannot be helpful in redressing
business losses that arise out of cloud downtime.

7. Bandwidth is a Major Concern
The current scenario with cloud providers is that they operate with an insufficient
network bandwidth. This poses serious issues to organizations marring their
performance on the network. Their hands are tied when complex services should
be delivered via a platform that offers inadequate bandwidth.

8. Integrating With Existing Applications
While a cloud based platform offers greater flexibility in meeting the technological
and business objectives of an enterprise, cloud management can be cumbersome
with many applications that demand complex integration requirements. The task of
integrating existing cloud applications with the already functional enterprise
applications and data structures is a serious concern.
There can be instances when different departments in organizations use different
cloud platforms in a multi-cloud organization. Thus, it is very important that cloud
providers should help businesses integrate all their data on two clouds through
simple and affordable means.