...facing cloud computing making it difficult to maintain data security and privacy, support data and service availability and demonstrate compliance. These issue also make cloud vulnerable to exploitation by attackers. The three cloud services models used today are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).Iaas provides the most dynamic functionality since it is based as the underlying layer in cloud. It widens the resilience for users to design a practical environment that includes virtual machines running with different operating systems. This may pose as a vulnerability since an attacker could lease these virtual machines, analyze their configurations, find their vulnerabilities, and attack other customers’ virtual machines within the same cloud. Brute force and Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks could also take place in Iaas as it provides a platform for use of virtual machines. Data loss is major security risk of the three cloud computing service models. In SaaS, consumers and business data is stored at a data center, in PaaS, application developers use data to test software integrity during the system development life cycle and in IaaS cloud models, data is stored in the drives of virtual...
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...Cloud Computing Introduction Information technology has been infiltrated into our daily life due to the advent of technology. In business setting, the usage of information technology is omnipresent and information system is widely used among entities. For information system, cloud computing is one of the popular applications for businesses because it can reduce IT cost at the same time facilitating a company in various perspectives. In this essay, a fast-growing company called Airbnb, adopting concept of collaborative consumption, will be analyzed to demonstrate the use of cloud computing. Background Airbnb is an American company founded in 2008, an online platform for people to rent out, list, discover, and book lodging, including private rooms, entire apartments, castles, boats, private islands and other properties around the world. Through online or mobile phone, a transaction can be done conveniently (Airbnb, Inc., 2014). Airbnb has expanded to host more than 500,000 listings across 192 countries since launched in 2008 (King, 2013) and has now served 9 million guests in the fifth year (Lawler, 2013). However, one year after launched, It experienced service administration challenges because of its original cloud computing provider, therefore, Airbnb decided to migrate nearly all of its cloud computing functions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Amazon, 2014). Benefits for adopting cloud computing Definition Cloud computing is a type of computing...
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...organization (Shehab et al.). When implemented correctly, ERP is a high-cost investment but also offers high return as it enables companies to centralize their day-to-day operations in real time. Cloud computing technology enables convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction (Mell et al.). There are three service models in cloud computing: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS is capability provided to the consumer to use the software provider's applications running on a cloud infrastructure, with applications accessible from various client devices (Mell et al.). PaaS is capability provided to the consumer to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider (Mell et al.). IaaS is capability provided to the consumer to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources in which the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software (Mell et al.). For the purposes of this paper, we will focus on a specific module of ERP running on a specific model in cloud computing. Due to the immense scope of ERP and cloud computing, it is nearly impossible for us to capture the entirety of ERP on all three...
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...RightScale. Examine the security concerns for cloud-based services and make suggestions to cope with these concerns. Assess possible scalability, reliability, and cost issues associated with cloud computing, and make suggestions to overcome each of these issues. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. Cloud Computing, an Internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked so as to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cloud+computing). The cloud computing is roughly in Iaas, PaaS, SaaS these 3 categories, but they all have a common principles which are to use pays principle of how much is how many. It is not the same way as traditional building to purchase the largest estimates of the number of users’ hardware resources. Therefore, the cloud computing also has environmental protection significance. However, how effective and full use of maximum resources in the cloud computing is a desirable subject for discussion. The study suggests use of the working scheduling models to improve the resource allocation in the cloud computing, however, the cloud computing and distribution of resources is more responsive application needs to be time and resources optimal applications. We analog users in accordance with demand category...
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...Cloud Computing for Education and Learning: Education and Learning as a Service (ELaaS) Mohssen M. Alabbadi Computer Research Institute (CRI) King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Alabbadi@kacst.edu.sa Abstract—Cloud computing, despite its hype, is being widely deployed, with its dynamic scalability and usage of virtualized resources, in many organizations for several applications. It is envisioned that, in the near future, cloud computing will have a significant impact on the educational and learning environment, enabling their own users (i.e., learners, instructors, and administrators) to perform their tasks effectively with less cost by utilizing the available cloud-based applications offered by the cloud service providers. This paper discusses the use of cloud computing in the educational and learning arena, to be called ‟Education and Learning as a Service” (ELaaS), emphasizing its possible benefits and offerings. It is essential for an educational and learning organization, with its budget restrictions and sustainability challenges, to use the cloud formation best suited for a particular IT activity. The Jericho Forum proposes a cloud computing formation model, called the Cloud Cube Model (CCM), which is based on 4 criteria. To preserve the symmetry of the cube, a new cloud computing formation model, called the Complete Cloud Computing Formations (C3F), is proposed. The IT activities in the educational and learning organizations are...
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...g Easier! Making Everythin ™ mputing Cloud Co Learn to: • Recognize the benefits and risks of cloud services • Understand the business impact and the economics of the cloud • Govern and manage your cloud environment • Develop your cloud services strategy Judith Hurwitz Robin Bloor Marcia Kaufman Fern Halper Get More and Do More at Dummies.com ® Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! To access the Cheat Sheet created specifically for this book, go to www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/cloudcomputing Get Smart at Dummies.com Dummies.com makes your life easier with 1,000s of answers on everything from removing wallpaper to using the latest version of Windows. Check out our • Videos • Illustrated Articles • Step-by-Step Instructions Plus, each month you can win valuable prizes by entering our Dummies.com sweepstakes. * Want a weekly dose of Dummies? Sign up for Newsletters on • Digital Photography • Microsoft Windows & Office • Personal Finance & Investing • Health & Wellness • Computing, iPods & Cell Phones • eBay • Internet • Food, Home & Garden Find out “HOW” at Dummies.com *Sweepstakes not currently available in all countries; visit Dummies.com for official rules. Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, and Dr. Fern Halper Cloud Computing For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing...
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...Review the process of implementing cloud computing of SMEs in UK - an Exploratory Study 1. Introduction Information technology (IT) plays an important role in increasing innovation and competitiveness and performance for small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs). Cloud computing or on-demand computing is IT infrastructures that empower SMEs with various capabilities to store, share and access information, data and resources in third-party data center. Cloud computing when implemented strategically will help enterprises to improve their performances, processes and efficiency. Despite the importance of cloud-based computing, limited research has done to study about the implementation and usage of cloud-based computing in the SMEs within the UK context (Shiels et al., 2003). The objective of the research reviewed in this proposal is to contribute to the valuable research on cloud solutions by studying the implementation of SMEs. UK was selected for this research as in UK, SMEs accounts for the vast mojarity of all companies and it is home of innovation companies that develop with the development of information and communication technologies. The relevant literature are referred and the theoretical framework is used in this research are discussed in the next part of the paper. 2. Literature Review According to Sultan, N. A. (2011) small- and medium-sized enterprises can take a lot of advantages from embracing cloud solutions. Because no matter of what type of business...
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...Dublin Institute of Technology ARROW@DIT Dissertations School of Computing 2010-09-01 Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption Faith Shimba Dublin Institute of Technology, faith.shimba@gmail.com Recommended Citation Shimba, F.:Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption. Masters Dissertation. Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2010. This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Computing at ARROW@DIT. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ARROW@DIT. For more information, please contact yvonne.desmond@dit.ie, arrow.admin@dit.ie. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License School of Computing Dissertations Dublin Institute of Technology Year Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption Faith Shimba Mr. Dublin Institute of Technology, faith.shimba@student.dit.ie This paper is posted at ARROW@DIT. http://arrow.dit.ie/scschcomdis/1 — Use Licence — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 You are free: • to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work • to make derivative works Under the following conditions: • Attribution. You must give the original author credit. • Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1: MANGAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM CASE STUDY 201311034009 宋蕊廷 2013 级金融班 宋蕊廷 201311034009 ASSIGNMENT 1: MANGAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM Management Information System Assignment 1 (Case Study) 2013 Finance, School of Business 宋蕊廷 201311034009 Modernization of NTUC Income 1. What were the problems faced by Income in this case? How were the problems resolved by the new digital system? Problems: (1) The old HP 3000 mainframe frequently broke down, and backup or reconciliation would be needed. However, If daily backup was not completed, the affected day’s data would be lost and cost months to do reconciliation. (2) The 1980s COBOL programs broke multiple times, halted the systems and caused temporary interruptions, and it took IT team long time(from several weeks to months) to launch new products. (3) Transaction processing for policy underwriting was a batch process and information was not available to agents and advisors in real-time. (4) Various departments did not have up-to-date information and had to pass physical documents among each other. How were the problems resolved: Income switched to the Java base eBao LifeSystem from eBao Technology. The new system seldom broke down, and it enabled the IT team to launch a new product only in a few days by using the table-driven rule-based product-definition module; plus, the real-time hot backup disaster-recovery 1/9 宋蕊廷 201311034009 ASSIGNMENT 1: MANGAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM center helped the company get real-time...
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...McMann Cars Corp. PART I Identification and prioritisation of the problems facing the organisation. A rationale/justification needs to accompany your identification of problems. Your analysis should examine the major issues or problems currently facing the situation. Based on the evidence supplied in this part, we identified that the organisation is facing six problems effecting directly to business, those issues are communication, data management, security and fragmentation network operation system, supply chain management, obsolescence system, and weather forecasting. Communication issues This is the prioritisation problem faced by the company, there are a plenty of issues which the organisation is facing within this trouble. The very first complication is the geographical dispersion of offices in Europe countries, so that senior managers have to travel around divisions to communicate directly. As a consequence, money and time are being spent inefficiently. In addition, the lack of good intranet with compatible email system is also suffering to internal communication: current systems are introducing unnecessary redundancy which offers incoherent association with other branches. Furthermore, the status of real-time correspondence is not supporting effectively in connecting with suppliers and sub-contractors, this leads to the problem of missing project timeline. Obsolescence systems issues The loss and corruption of data has been experiencing during a period...
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...head separated from the main polar-front, creating a hook that completely encircles a pocket of warm air with colder air. The most damaging winds occur near the tip of the hook. The cloud hook formation provides a useful analogy for cloud computing, in which the most acute obstacles with outsourced services (i.e., the cloud hook) are security and privacy issues. This paper identifies key issues, which are believed to have long-term significance in cloud computing security and privacy, based on documented problems and exhibited weaknesses. • applications can be developed upon and deployed. It can reduce the cost and complexity of buying, housing, and managing hardware and software components of the platform. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) enables a software deployment model in which the basic computing infrastructure of servers, software, and network equipment is provided as an on-demand service upon which a platform to develop and execute applications can be founded. It can be used to avoid buying, housing, and managing the basic hardware and software infrastructure components. 1. Introduction Cloud computing has been defined by NIST as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction [45]. Cloud computing can be considered a new computing paradigm with implications for greater flexibility and availability...
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...Information Technology and Management Science doi: 10.2478/v10313-012-0013-8 2012 /15 Cloud Computing Evaluation Based on Financial Metrics Maksims Kornevs1, Vineta Minkevica2, 1-2Riga Technical University, Marcus Holm, Cisco Systems Abstract – Interest in cloud computing is growing, and, as a result, there is much information about it – both positive and negative. On the one hand, cloud computing saves money because it does not require IT infrastructure, servers, and it is very scalable. On the other hand, it might lead to financial loss due to security risks, possible data access problems, data privacy policies, etc. Therefore, cloud computing evaluation based on financial metrics is proposed in this article. This paper consists of four major sections. The first section is a literature review of cloud computing and its types. The next section describes some common financial metrics such as CBA, ROI and TCO and describes how they might be applied to evaluate cloud computing. The third section proposes evaluation strategies, and the last section contains the evaluation of a series of cloud computing projects based on chosen evaluation strategies, and results are verified based on expert opinion. Keywords – cloud computing, CBA, ROI, TCO, ROC computing as “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configuration computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction”...
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...Forever 21 CRM and SCM Recommendations INFS1602 Assignment B z3457712 Hiu Kwan Lam, z5060301 Cindy Nguyen, z3406631 Syed Maheen Reza Word Count: 3488 Forever 21 CRM and SCM Recommendations INFS1602 Assignment B z3457712 Hiu Kwan Lam, z5060301 Cindy Nguyen, z3406631 Syed Maheen Reza Word Count: 3488 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to outline the advantages and disadvantages of cloud- based CRM and SCM solutions, how it can enhance a business’ customer relationships and supply chain as well as balancing the risks of the use of this technology with the benefits. This report will firstly illustrate the benefits and disadvantages of implementing a cloud-based CRM and SCM solutions, in comparison to traditional on-site processes to assist Forever 21 in making a decision whether to use these CRM and SCM solutions or not. It will then describe how CRM and SCM solutions can maintain customer relationships and retention through the leveraging of an enhancing the efficiency of supply chain management and tailoring the product range through the use of these technologies. This report will accentuate the security, ethics and privacy issues that are associated with cloud-based CRM and SCM solutions. A recommendation of a specific vendor for cloud-based CRM and SCM solutions will then be provided to assist the CIO of Forever 21 in making a decision which is most suitable to a retail business such Forever 21. Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction...
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...I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Over the years many organizations have invested in massive in-house computing capacities and specialized Information Technology (IT) staff around the world in order to support their primary business processes or to achieve a competitive advantage. According to Porter and Millar IT creates competitive advantage by giving companies new ways to outperform their rivals. To gain competitive advantage over its rivals, a company must either perform these activities at a lower cost or perform them in a way that leads to differentiation and premium price (Porter & Millar, 1999). These days, organizations are looking for IT to operate more efficiently and help to reduce the overall costs. The concept of outsourcing has contributed to this development by transferring entire business functions to an external service provider. A recent phenomenon in the domain of outsourcing is called Cloud Computing. “Clouds are a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources (such as hardware, development platforms and/or services). These resources can be dynamically re-configured to adjust to a variable load (scale), allowing also for an optimum resource utilization. This pool of resources is typically exploited by a pay-per-use model in which guarantees are offered by the Infrastructure Provider by means of customized SLAs” (Vaquero, 2009). The arrival of the Internet has accelerated the commoditization of IT by providing a perfect delivery...
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...Contents Porters 5 Forces Analysis………………………....……………………3 Entry………………………………………………………………3-4 Rivalry…………………………………………………………….4-5 Substitutes…………………………………………....…………….5 Supplier Power……………………………………………………5-6 Buyer power………………………………………………………..6 Competitive advantage………………………………………………..6-10 Identifying challenges…………………………………………...…..10-13 Reference…………………………………………..………………….14 5 Forces Analysis of the Video on Demand Industry By offering streaming movies through its website, Netflix is entering the Video on Demand (VOD) industry. This industry, along with DVD rentals (both from online providers such as Netflix, and cable services such as On Demand and Pay-Per-View), is part of the larger industry of “watching movies in the home.” However, since Netflix is already positioned in this market, with its online DVD rentals, we will examine the smaller 5 portion of the market that is streaming online movies. This business is too closely related to the movie downloading service to be considered as a separate market. Threat of Potential Entrants Today, internet video rental industry is very profitable and still has a very good develop prospect. After Netflix’s success, the whole video industry starts to change gradually, and more and more people start to consider entering this field. However, for most of those potential entrants, this industry has some big barriers to entry. First of all, the service in this industry is already very complete. With its seven-year-development...
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