Are cloud technologies needed?

One of modern opportunities of the internet – cloud computing or cloud technologies – is just gaining popularity though not without difficulty. These services, as it turns out, have both many supporters and skeptical critics.
Improvement of web-technologies helps move business to the next quality level of development. Internet shops and portals, trading platforms and simple business sites are very popular with companies’ managers. Perhaps such interest to possibilities of the internet commerce gave birth to new client-server technologies.
Many top-managers and business owners are interested in the fact that from all own resources needed for work only working place (computer) and internet connection are used. The servers and their administration, databases and their maintenance, software and information storage – all that is provided as a service. That’s why it’s easy to imagine how economical for enterprise may be such variant of using resources.
But in using cloud services there are not only advantages. One of the most important moments is participation in business of third party, especially in data storing. The obligatory condition must be a guarantee of inadmissibility of penetration and theft of data from own company’s database as its location is outside the office of organization. Here it is important to regulate the activity of organizations providing cloud services in law.
There also must be provided guarantee of continuity of servers and equipment in all directions. Besides all other it is also important to take into consideration the level of protection from penetration into physical environment of used devices.
In the world of information technologies there are still quarrels about using software in cloud technologies. There is an opinion that used programs are not controlled by users anymore.
It is also worth saying that technologies of cloud computing are just at the beginning of their road so there will always be supporters and foes. But the question of using them is still open and fully depends on certain user.