be metered. Cloud services can be consumed via subscription, rather than asset purchases.
This means higher efficiency can be gained, less upfront investment is required, and more
capital becomes available. There is no worrying about asset depreciation, wear and tear,
and technology upgrades. More importantly, there is no need to worry about becoming a
software orphan when the software developers terminate their businesses.
In a cloud environment, centralized management is used rather than individual website
management. Cloud service managers, via the internet based remote management system,
can manage the system at anytime, anywhere. Cloud applications can expand its service
capacity with the changing market size to safeguard the resources for service.
Changes in the business model with cloud computing is reflected mainly in the response to
innovation, cost, and efficiency. Cloud technology applications can offer services that can
pulse with the market. Via rich and diverse services, enterprises can respond better, faster,
and more cost-effectively to changes in the market, to achieve business service and
business model innovation. At the same time, enterprises with cloud can be positioned to be
included in a wider range of industrial chain, to achieve industry value chain diversity with
wider business cooperation and development.
Cloud service applications can facilitate the fusion of development opportunities. The tight
integration of cloud computing with internet of things (IOT), mobile Internet, big data, and
other next generation information technologies will intensify with further trend in business
and service integration. The processing, analysis, and optimization of big data in cloud
computing will deepen the realization of data and service values. The feedbacks or cross
feedbacks gained via cloud services to series of applications like IOT, mobile internet, digital
home, and social networking, created tremendous business, economic, and social value.
6.1.2
Thing to watch out for in selecting Cloud service
The changes in cloud can bring new opportunities for enterprises. However, there will be
new challenges in the promotion, using, offering, and participating cloud services. So, what
are the issues we need to pay attention to?
How to choose a reliable, steady large-scale cloud infrastructure, or a stable,
sustainable, and supportive service?
How to measure, estimate, and manage cloud services cost?
How to ensure the reliability and security of cloud service platform, and to protect
users’ business information, assets, and private data?
How to ensure cloud services platform can span from one to another along with the
