Cloud Computing in Multinational Companies Technically, what we mean by Cloud computing is that instead of all the computer hardware and software we're using sitting on our desktop or somewhere inside our company's network, it's provided for us as a service by other companies and accessed over the Internet, in a completely seamless way.
It does not matter exactly where the hardware and software are located and how it works. The user—it's just somewhere up in the shadowy "cloud" that the Internet illustrates. Cloud Computing is drastically changing the way of providing and managing IT services. Big enterprises continuously invest in Cloud technologies to streamline IT processes and substantially reduce the time to market new services. The current Cloud service model enables companies with a low initial investment to easily test new services and technologies, like IoT and Big Data, on a "ready to go" virtualized infrastructure.
However, large organizations still face multiple challenges in migrating business-critical services and sensitive data to Public Cloud environments. We interviewed IT managers and cloud architects of over sixty multinational organizations to investigate the current adoption of Public Cloud services. The survey assesses both business and technical issues and requirements of current and future Cloud strategies. Our analysis shows that Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) were not yet perceived as fully able to address critical points in security, regulatory constraints, and performance management. Hence, to control their public cloud services and to overcome such limitations, multinational organizations must adopt structured SLM approaches.
Conclusion
The concept of cloud computing is prevalent in many multinational companies. It manages and manipulates different data and information segments and makes organizational management efficient.