...Chapter 5 – Case Study Should businesses move to the cloud? 1. Cloud computing is defined as a system in which software (apps, programs, maintenance tools etc.) are used via an Internet connection. It provides a lot of advantages. The most important one that I could find was that it promotes global trade by providing an online marketplace. This has made globalization look completely different from what it looked like a couple of decades ago. It makes buying products easy as multiple vendors and suppliers can be looked up within an instant, instead of making different phone-calls or visiting different stores. A significant business advantage is that it lets businesses cut major costs. Cloud computing also enables remote access, and increases efficiency by eliminating duplication and errors. Also, maintenance of cloud computing is significantly cheaper than fixed assets like buildings and land. 2. Cloud computing has a few disadvantages as well. Applications based on cloud computing depend on the service provider for maintenance usually, and if something were to go wrong with the providers systems, the users will not be able to access the data or operate on their usual terms; this is a huge drawback. The security of this sensitive information is also at risk if there are errors or hacking attacks made on the server systems for cloud computing. Security is a key issue that is being tackled on an everyday basis. Also, most users get uploading and downloading privileges, so...
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...Question 2: MEMORANDUM Date: February 12th, 2014 To: John Doe, Owner Subject: Sourcing Internet Services Dear John; Having considered the current situation at Graphic Designers’ Studio and understanding the budget set aside to implement the internet solutions needed to support the business model, I have identified the options available and made a recommendation that will meet the following criteria: 1. High-speed internet access; 2. E-mail accounts for everybody; 3. Web access for e-mail; 4. Ability to handle up to 10MB of attachments; and, 5. Ability to download and upload large graphic files (up to 100 MB) to customers. 1) Bell Business internet and web hosting ecommerce Bell provides an internet dedicated package at a cost of $165 per month which comes with a dedicated connection to the Bell network; 32 static IP addresses, 30 optional email addresses and a router provided and managed by Bell. This package will also provide a sufficient bandwidth which will support upload speeds of up to 1Mbps and download speeds of up to 16Mbps. Bell also offers additional web site hosting solutions that range from Economy packages to Premium Pro. At an additional cost of $12.99 a month (economy package) Bell can give a domain based email solution, where employees can access email on the internet, the company can utilize up to 10 GB of Bandwidth and up to 300MB of web space. As additional packages are available the price can go up to $29.99 a month bring the top end...
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...Contents Introduction of Cloud Computing .......................................................................................................... 2 Why I chose Cloud Computing? ............................................................................................................ 3 Milestones of Cloud Computing ............................................................................................................ 4 Organizations that are using Cloud Computing ...................................................................................... 4 1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) .................................................... 4 2. Private cloud and hybrid cloud ........................................................................................................... 4 3. Test and development ......................................................................................................................... 5 4. Big data analytics ............................................................................................................................... 5 5. File storage ......................................................................................................................................... 5 6. Disaster recovery ................................................................................................................................ 5 7. Backup .......................................
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...Technology Building Your Cloud Strategy with Accenture 2 Cloud computing, in its simplest form, allows companies to procure technology as services, including infrastructure, applications, platforms and business processes, via the Internet. Because using an IT resource no longer depends on having the capital to own that resource, companies can now source, scale and deliver capacity unbound by physical location, labor or capital, thanks to the cloud. And that changes the game. With cloud, competitive dynamics change. David-vs.-Goliath scenarios, traditionally implausible because of the cost and capacity constraints on small- to medium-sized businesses, are now more probable than ever. Think of some of the industry giants whose names did not even exist several years ago; chances are the cloud played a role in creating these companies and supporting their rise to the top. While the concept of cloud is simple, determining how cloud best fits with your organizational needs can be incredibly complex. But one thing is certain: The cloud model changes the way business and technology interact at a strategic level. Therefore, IT’s role also must shift dramatically – and quickly. Maintaining the status quo as you weigh benefits and risks won’t slow down cloud adoption – it will simply incent the business to move forward without you, deploying cloud solutions that spring up independently of the IT function. The business will view IT as a barrier, not a strategic partner in creating...
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...Cloud Computing The growth of information technology and its infrastructure has forced many businesses to invest in cloud technology. Cloud computing increases capacity and capabilities. Whether it is software delivery, storage space, or integration, cloud computing is a pivotal investment if businesses want to remain competitive or gain an edge. Ericsson is just one company that has invested in cloud computing and benefited from its capabilities. Benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ericsson has benefited from utilizing Amazon Web Services in costs, software updates, remote access, and on-demand availability. AWS has shown a better quality in service with solid management and they have a proven track record (Ericsson, 2013). AWS offers Ericsson advanced automation services with global hosting. AWS allows Ericsson to have hosting centers in various regions. AWS is also considered to be the most integrated public cloud provider in RightScale (Ericsson, 2013). Costs On-site information technology infrastructure is not required for AWS, so IT management costs are minimized. Improvements in cloud computing can also lower costs and various pricing packages allow businesses to optimize their costs based on specific requirements. AWS also gives Ericsson access to a highly distributed and full-featured platform at a fraction of the cost for in-house IT infrastructure (Amazon, 2013). It also allows for resources to be shifted from IT infrastructure to more innovative...
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...IT. In addition, concepts such as grid computing make possible a whole new class of analytics, data crunching, and business intelligence tasks that were previously cost- and time-prohibitive. Along with these technology changes there have also been fundamental changes in how markets work, with the speed of innovation and product introductions increasing at an unprecedented rate. Taken alongside the wide acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, all of these concepts have inspired the latest turn in the IT infrastructure challenge: cloud computing. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a flexible, cost-effective, scalable, and easy to use cloud computing platform for businesses of all sizes. What is “Cloud Computing”? Cloud computing has become one of the most discussed IT paradigms of recent years. It builds on many of the advances in the IT industry over the past decade and presents significant opportunities for businesses to shorten time to market and reduce costs by consuming shared...
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...Cloud computing is now evolving like never before, with companies of all shapes and sizes adapting to this new technology. Industry experts believe that this trend will only continue to grow and develop even further in the coming few years. While cloud computing is undoubtedly beneficial for mid-size to large companies, it is not without its downsides, especially for smaller businesses. We now bring you a list of advantages of disadvantages of cloud computing, with a view to helping such establishments fully understand the concept of cloud computing. Saas, Paas and IaaS in the Mobile Industry Advantages of Cloud Computing If used properly and to the extent necessary, working with data in the cloud can vastly benefit all types of businesses. Mentioned below are some of the advantages of this technology: Why Cloud Computing Is Ideal for Small Businesses Cost Efficient Cloud computing is probably the most cost efficient method to use, maintain and upgrade. Traditional desktop software costs companies a lot in terms of finance. Adding up the licensing fees for multiple users can prove to be very expensive for the establishment concerned. The cloud, on the other hand, is available at much cheaper rates and hence, can significantly lower the company’s IT expenses. Besides, there are many one-time-payment, pay-as-you-go and other scalable options available, which makes it very reasonable for the company in question. Almost Unlimited Storage Storing information in the cloud...
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...Benefits of Cloud Computing Customer and Vendor Perspective The need for information is just as strong today, if not stronger, than it was hundreds of years ago. But the ways we access information, and the forms it exists in, are dramatically different. I would like to compare the past two decades‘ changing landscape of digital information to the California Gold Rush of the 1800s. As they did during the Gold Rush, droves of people are jumping on the band wagon with the hope of achieving unprecedented riches and their 15 minutes of fame. Today, they hope to do it by creating content to post on social channels (like YouTube videos, controversial stories, and provocative blogs). The similarities end when we look to the future, however, since the supply of digital content, unlike that of gold, is only going to get bigger in the coming decades. In fact, there‘s no end in sight when we consider that the number of people on the planet today with smart phones is expected to rise dramatically. There is no doubt that technology plays an integral role in the success of almost every business today. Every company is spending money on technology. Of course, every company is different in how they use technology but many companies use the same core programs to run their business, Messaging, Collaboration, Business Applications, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and IT Services There‘s been a thunderstorm of white noise surrounding cloud computing. Vendors, pundits, and analysts took...
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...Cloud Security Planning Abstract Cloud systems as new online storage and computing systems provide great potentials to all businesses and organizations of creating new approach of storage and computing; cloud system guarantee that all your files and valuable data can be accessed and recovered from anywhere in the world, providing a new meaning of technology. Unfortunately and as to what happen with all emerging technologies there are new threats, risks, breaches, and problems arise with such technologies. They are considered challenges that vary from configuration problems to security breaches to harmful attacks; which may cost the company large losses and in some time financial disasters. In this case study we will try to identify the major threats that may affect the cloud security negatively which can be divided into three major categories: 1. Attackers and threats: where the attacks are no longer limited by breaching the data on someone’s personal computer. It became larger wider and involves more organized crimes. 2. Developed Structure technologies: the amount of data and information used today provides great challenges to system engineers and security designers to visualize and utilize their system to isolate and protect the data on them. 3. Regularity environment challenges: Most companies and IT departments are facing great challenges to meet the laws, legal requirements and consistency acquiescence especially with growth of demand on cloud systems. ...
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... 3.2 Obstacles 3.3 Breaches 3.4 Are you secure? 3.5 What’s your support plan? 3. Security…………………………………………………….………….8 4. Name of the company or organization…………..…………….………….…..8-10 5.6 Types of Cloud Computing 5.7 High Level Solutions 5.8 Cloud Computing Economics 5. Brief Description of proposed solution…………………………..………….10-12 6.9 Products 6.10 Business Recommendations 6. General benefits it will provide the organization…………………..……12 7. Audience to whom you are presenting the recommendation(s)…..12 8. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..14-15 9. References…………………………………………………………..…………………...16 Abstract The latest major changes in information technology today is Cloud computing. Cloud computing creates a dynamic and competitive working environment where changes are made at a fast pace in many companies and organizations today that are looking for ways to save on hardware storage, costs and production. The option of having a system that would allow a company to store its files elsewhere helps a company by freeing up more space on its own main server. In today’s business Information technology (IT), infrastructure and systems on the cloud have benefits of variable pay per use costs, with better technology and high scalability. This is a “hot issue” in the technology world because it affects the way we spend our money. The idea came about by coming up with one place to file...
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...Internal Cloud | | American Military UniversityISSC 340Professor Wang | | | George L Ragland | 11/19/2015 | | Introduction Cloud computing is a Web-Based processing, that allows user to share software , information, and resources provided to computers and other personal devices such as Smartphone's via the Internet. By utilizing the cloud, users have the capability to provide computing resources dynamically and corporate businesses can essentially change their Information Technology plan. As the technology grows, Cloud computing introduces new ways to conduct business but also bring in some new challenges, specifically when planning the privacy and security of the information stored within the cloud servers. This technology also uses expandable computer resources and offers them as to users using Internet as a medium. Allowing companies to share resources and among vast number of consumers cuts a large amount of costs in ownership of Information Technology. In today's business world many companies are shifting to Cloud Services which improves the scalability and also makes the companies have a larger reach of clients. Private clouds are a type of cloud computing that delivers some of the advantages of public cloud, including self-service and scalability, but through a user built architecture. A private cloud is dedicated to a single organization unlike public clouds, which deliver services to multiple organizations. Also, private cloud offers protection...
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...1, Jan 2013 Cloud Computing: Business Trends and the Challenges Christina Kerr, Phuong-Thao (Jackie) Vu and Sadegh Davari School of Science and Computer Engineering University of Houston – Clear Lake Davari@UHCL.edu (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service); and four main deployment models: public, community, private and hybrid. Each service and deployment model is described in the sub-sections that follow. Table 1 gives a summary of what each service model can provide for businesses. 1. Cloud Computing Service Models. The three types of cloud computing service models are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Figure 1 depicts the hierarchal relationship between the various service models and describes the services, hardware and software provided by each [13]. Abstract — The purpose of this paper is to provide information to businesses interested in cloud computing. First we define cloud computing and discuss the different service and deployment models from a business standpoint. Then we move into business cases for the cloud and the strengths of each service and deployment model. We follow this up with business attributes that tend to drive a cloud adaption and the effects of cloud on business IT. The last section reveals the challenges of cloud computing ranging from security concerns and legal issues, to negotiation of an adequate service level agreement. Index Terms – cloud computing, cloud computing effects on business IT, cloud computing challenges ...
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...FIN/370 Strategic Initiative Strategic planning is the focus of an organization’s plan for the upcoming year. According to “All About Strategic Planning” (2013), the plan depends on the organization’s leadership, culture, environment, size, and expertise of its planners. As the largest developer of operating systems and other technology products, Microsoft’s vision of cloud computing, a unique computing system that no other company is working on will enable the organization to meet its goal. Current Strategic Planning Initiative The 2012 fiscal year was a very big year for the Microsoft Corporation. There were several accomplishments made throughout the past year. Revenue grew to 73.7 billion dollars. Cash flow from operations increased 17% from the prior year to 31.6 billion dollars. 10.7 billion dollars was also returned to shareholders from dividends and stock buybacks. Microsoft continues to transform itself into a “devices and services company.” This goal effects how the company’s new products and experiences are marketed for both consumers and businesses. Devices with end-user services continue to be a focus for the Microsoft Corporation. There are over 1.3 billion Microsoft users all over the world. Microsoft wants to continue to provide continued convenient access to the Microsoft world with various different devices. One of the primary focuses for the upcoming year is the new Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 came to the market on October...
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...the primary way of buying other products online. Amazon changed the strategy of the business to make better uses of the company’s capabilities. The strategy was to make use of the extra 90 percent of the company’s processing capacity and improve revenue by offering computing, storage, and other technical services to businesses as well as individuals. This was a very smart move on their part. This was not the original purpose of the business; however, there was constant changing in the market and new competitive online retailers that they had to diversify the business. The new strategy took Amazon in a new direction that allowed them to compete in a broader business market. Three of the services offered are the Simple Storage Service (S3), the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and the Mechanical Turk. There may be data management issues that could pop up; however, they should manage their space very wisely. Amazon charges a fee when businesses use these services. The EC2 rents out processing power that is charged by the hour. Simple Storage Service (S3) offers developers and companies inexpensive web storage infrastructure while Elastic Compute Cloud...
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...The adoption of cloud based accounting information system in business I. Introduction Accounting information system is playing an important role in the business operation, and the cloud computing has a great impact on the revolution of accounting information system. This research paper aims to discuss the new trend of cloud based accounting information system in business. The whole text is divided into three parts: First part gives an overview of the cloud computing and accounting information system; second part analyses the benefits and challenges of the accounting information system's move to the cloud; and third part gives the recommendations on key success factors of the adoption. II. Cloud-based accounting information system overview i. Cloud computing According to the definition given by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics.” The NIST also identified the following five essential characteristics that cloud computing has: (i) “On-demand self-service”. With the time and network stored in the cloud server, cloud computing dramatically reduces consumer’s human interaction with...
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