Technology

Dangers of cloud computing
Cloud computing is not the main problem in it is the fact that use of this technology has been taken so far. At this point, it is worth noting that, for instance, without global cloud computing to gather and analyze data, a global phenomenon like Global Warming could not be understood, or even properly detected. Only its local effects would be observed. What becomes problematic is the use of cloud computing to support the fantasy that information is alive in its own right, and that the activities or expressions of individual people are nothing but one form of computing resource, targeted for aggregation. This is, unfortunately, an approximate statement of the latest ideology that has taken hold of the cloud.

There is a new awareness and leverage of the greater Internet particularly Web 2.0. The Web has advanced especially with the introduction of Web 2.0. The challenges in scale, and performance has created solutions for businesses, both large and small, and has come up with infrastructures that can address challenges in a powerful and economical ways that many companies have found no equal (Beweley, 2010). The employment of SaaS, non-relational databases will in the end serve companies well in the new company cloud. This will enable companies to gain new skills and perspectives that are needed to compete well in the 21st century.

Cloud computing has been a good match of SOA. With cloud computing, SOA will be improved and changed for the better. Web Oriented Architecture has been found to fit well with cloud technologies which are based on the Web. Traditional SOA will not suffice with the development of cloud computing because it will be moved to a place where new business and technical requirements with faster rate of changes will be achieved. It will be common to see the phasing out of traditional SOA and the emergence of new technologies that will bring more efficiency to businesses (Fowler,  Worthen, 2010).

More on the business, there will be advantages to businesses when they adopt cloud computing because more users will not require IT personnel in order to get the service. There will be more self-service IT from the business side. There will be less and less involvement of the IT department because it is more about Software-as-a-Service. Many business users will be in a position to adopt future cloud computing by the use of self-service.

With new technologies like cloud computing and particularly private cloud, there will be more tolerance for innovation and a lot of experimentation form businesses. There will be fewer barriers to creating new ways of doing businesses (Knorr,  Gruman, 2010). It will pave way for prototyping and market validation of new approaches in a much faster and less expensive than before. The other sectors of the organization like branding, legal, and compliance will struggle to keep up the pace with the other sectors and thus the gradual change of the organization will be seen as cloud computing bring business possibilities to be possible in the world of cloud computing. Although this will not fix broken innovation mechanisms in businesses, but on the other side, cloud computing is accessible which enables new internal entrepreneurs to use the cloud computing tools to create new solutions anyway (Fowler,  Worthen, 2010)

The firms which are slow in adopting new technologies will find it hard to compete with the fast-adopters. The failure to adopt cloud computing does not bring immediate fall to these companies but it will instead pile onto the more recent advancements and make it even harder to compete in the fast-moving technology world. In the end, the slow adopters will face serious and growing economic and business disadvantages.

How did cloud computing contribute to financial crisis in 2008
With cloud computing their has been improved way of dealing with information security  which initially used to be very expensive to individual data centers although this does not indicate that there is zero risk, but security is better than in traditional infrastructure because data is always in motion and centralized. Coming up with data centers is very expensive but with cloud computing, you dont need a data centre its just too hard and expensive to build your own data centre because there is no upfront investment in cloud computing. This meant that the boomers prior to 2008 were nto able to get their source of revenues due to reduced revenue flow.

Vendors can come together and venture into software development hence cost sharing of expenses. Sharing of infrastructure is easier for the vendors. This joint venture not only minimize the cost but results into best products of high security features. It is clear that cloud computing was a solution to financial crisis. The cost of Maintenance in cloud computing applications are easier, since the task is centralized hence they are easier to support and to improve since the changes reach the clients instantly. On the other hand, cloud computing is internet dependant. Internet connectivity is not that reliable everywhere hence clients may not be able to access services. Hence clients like businesses may lose customers.

Cloud computing  has lead to clients avoiding capital expenses in hardware and software hence ventors in hardware and software have greatly suffered in the end.

Negative impact of technology
Cutting edge technologies is not that good if some factors will not be taken into consideration. What will happen if the private cloud is down Will this mean that the business will be brought to a standstill These are the questions that should be put in place when contemplating on setting up new technologies. Private cloud will be problematic to the company if it goes down and there is no technical staff to work on it. What is more, with IT department being less involved, it will be problematic to the business and may even lead to loss of revenue just because the system is down.
The initial cost of setting up a private cloud on the company enterprise may seem higher given the hardware that the enterprise is required to purchase. This will defeat the purpose of setting up the cloud in he first place because, with public cloud the economies of scale is achieved. The enterprise is the one that will meet all the hardware cost in the case of private cloud.

Conclusion
Technology has been proved to bring profitability to businesses. The use of it has seen companies gain competitive edge above their competition (Ramiler,  Swanson, 2004). Google, for example, has gained much popularity in the addition of functionality in their search engine application. The addition of Ajax made their search engine much efficient compared to others. As companies shift towards the use of new technologies factors such as security should be looked into before jumping into the boat. For organizations which are slow in technology adoption, they will find goal posts shifted.