siliconindia | | April 20159ating systems, virtualization, resource scheduling, transac-tion management, load balancing, concurrency control and memory management. Therefore, security issues for many of these systems and technologies are applicable to cloud computing.Today, cloud environments scale well for small companies, but when getting to a bigger scale it becomes too expensive. The ability to maintain linear costs with scale is not something cloud infrastructures do very well yet. In addition to security, it's a question of how to deliver the linearity of cost with respect to growth. A certain amount is feasible when the infrastructure is small, but as things grow, the amount grows enormously. In such scenarios, companies like QLogic, I/O companies, deliver faster, more persistent connectivity. There is a huge area open as the fundamental server and storage have become commoditized. Companies such as Foxconn, Quanta, and other original device manufacturers in China are challenging server revenues for traditional vendors. What's left is connectivity­it's not commoditized, and it's still difficult to do. Connectivity suppliers have a huge arena to innovate in, providing server-to-server connectivity that is reliable and fault-tolerant and that users can come to depend on. To the extent that cloud computing succeeds; it rep-resents an obvious com-petitive challenge to business leaders. The business lead-ers have to deal with issues of Data Deluge, cost, security and making cloud data disaster-proof. The data enterprises saw some uniform-ity and databases like SQL were all that was needed. Present-ly, there is a huge va-riety in the types of data, and busi-ness leaders are challenged to handle the variety of data they see. It is difficult to make head or tails out of the data that is available. Even though the Big Data in-dustry is tackling it, the variety is so great that the kinds of data and databases differ in many ways. To foster the right innovation, a step has to be taken towards moving out of the component supplier comfort zone. Talking about the evolution of data, and what that evolution has done to infrastructure, to storage, and to connectivity, understanding the bigger picture of the data evolution, and how that is driving databases, and how those databases are driving compute and connectivity infrastructure, is very crucial. With understanding comes knowledge and then the companies will become a better engineer to supply the best solutions into the infrastructure. Cloud computing is being defined and talked about across the IT industry under different contexts and with different definitions attached to it. Technology has moved in this direction because of the advancement in computing, communication and networking technologies. Fast and reliable connectivity is a must for the existence of cloud computing. Cloud computing is clearly one of the most enticing technology areas of the current times in part to its cost-efficiency and flexibility. However, although cloud technology has shown considerable opportunities to the IT industry it also brings many unique challenges that need to be carefully addressed. Business leaders have to deal with issues of Data Deluge, cost, security and making cloud data disaster-proof"
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