The cloud is the way forward
Most OTS suppliers offer to place OTS on the cloud. This will have a huge advantage for both contractors and suppliers.
The use of virtual machines is becoming increasingly prevalent in the industry. As we have seen earlier, the footprint for an OTS could be an issue for many contractors, so could the suppliers solve this by putting everything on the cloud?
Of course they could! Instead of having an OTS with many servers, it can all be virtualized and put on a server on the cloud, leaving the contractor with fewer operator stations to connect to the virtual machines on the cloud.
Depending on the contractor's security policy, the cloud options are as follows:
- Private
- Public
- Hybrid
The private cloud option means having the servers on the contractor's side and this will be the highest security level. Another option is to have a third party such as Amazon or Microsoft host the virtual machines on their servers, which...