...To: Mari Buche, Colleague From: Kristen Therrian, Colleague Date: October 20, 2014 Subject: Cloud Computing The world of cloud computing has recently become of interest in my research. I would like to hear from you on whether cloud computing is something I should pursue after discussing what cloud computing is, what is the cloud computing system architecture like, what are its advantages, and disadvantages. The article reviewed shows that cloud computing is a network of computers that handles the brunt work of running applications. Companies need only to install one application that lets employees log onto a web-based service, such as the internet which hosts all the programs that users would need. The interface software which is like a browser, is the only thing that is needed. The network of the cloud will take care of everything else. The cloud architecture has a back end and a front end. The back end allows users to connect to the internet or network. It is also where numerous servers, computers, and storage systems are located that build the “cloud” of the computing system (Strickland, 1998-2014). The front end is what the user can view and it is where the client’s computer and the application that is the means of entry to the cloud system is located. It is important to note that each application acquires its own server. The central server manages the system where it audits traffic and demands of clients to guarantee everything runs properly. The central server...
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...on computer’s hard drive. Cloud storage is the solution to the ever-present need of storage of all digital property. Cloud storage is an alternate to buy new hard disks and deleting old files to create space. It is convenient and cost-effective. Cloud storage stores data on a server and not local hard drive. This helps in having back up, sync and access to the data on all possible devices that have internet connection. 2. I personally feel that it is a very good way to track personal information. At the same time I also feel that the mobiles today are so high-end that they have huge storage capacity in-built. Music, photos and documents can be stored there too without the requirement of internet access and issues concerning security. However, the advantages are more in storing with cloud than on mobiles. Certain restriction with storage is there in case of mobile. The advantages and disadvantages are listed below. Advantages: * Flexibility * Low-cost * Speed * Easy management * Device Diversity * Increased storage capacity * Easy to understand * Automatic updating * Customize setting Disadvantages: * Dependency * Risk * Constant internet connection * Security * Migration Issue References: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cloud-computing/files-safe-in-the-cloud1.htm http://www.bu.edu/infosec/howtos/how-to-safely-store-your-data-in-the-cloud/ http://www.techinmind.com/what-is-cloud-computing-what-are-its-advantages-and-disadvantages/# ...
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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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...1. Find at least two other articles on the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. Some brief introduction about cloud computing: Cloud computing we can access all our application and documents from anywhere in the world whenever we can access any time. But cloud computing doesn’t give everyone to use we have pay money for them we need access that. Cloud computing also as represents simple changes in how we can store information and how we can run application. Instead of some application we required some hosting apps and data on a separates desktop computer that everything is hosted in the “cloud computing” an gathering of desktops and servers can accessed by via the internet. Now I am going to discuss about advantages and disadvantage cloud computing: Advantages of cloud computing: We will discuss about cloud computing in advantage this will includes both a company’s and as well as an end-user’s helpful. Cost organization: This is the way most importance of cloud computing to achieving some investing on stand- alone software or servers, by accessing cloud’s capabilities, an companies can save their own licensing fees and at the same time that we can avoid or not interest overhead charges may increases such as the cost of data storage, software updates and management etc. The cloud is in general available at it is very cheaper rates than traditional proposal and can also significantly so lower than all over IT expenses, at the same time that will for us very...
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...Anshul Agrawal (G15012) Rajeev Ranjan (G15043) Rejith M Rajan (G15045) Swapnil Nitin Rughani (G15056) Vinsun ERP Problem 1. Evaluate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the available options for a period of five year The Total cost of ownership for the three options ie Bluechip’s on Premise ERP solution, Codeautomation’s on Premise ERP solution and Codeautomation’s on Cloud ERP solution, available with Vinsun are given in the table below: Item | Bluechip's on Premise ERP | Codeautomation Premise ERP | Codeautomation Cloud ERP | Workstation x6 | 209700 | 209700 | 209700 | Workstation UPS x6 | 22290 | 22290 | 22290 | Laptops x2 | 132488 | 132488 | 132488 | Server | 100000 | 70000 | | Backup up server | 100000 | 70000 | | Server UPS x2 | 7750 | 7750 | | Initial Hardware cost | 572228 | 512228 | 364478 | Hardware AMC(yr 1) | 57222.8 | 51222.8 | 36447.8 | | | | | ERP Software x8 | 960000 | 240000 | | Consulting | 80000 | | | Deployment cost | 520000 | 200000 | | Training | 180000 | | | Service Fee x8 x12 | | | 192000 | Data Storage Cost | | | 60000 | Software Cost | 1740000 | 440000 | 192000 | Software AMC(yr 1) | 172800 | 36000 | | | | | | Network | | | | Router | 15479 | 15479 | 15479 | Infra set up | 120000 | 120000 | 120000 | Router maint | 1547.9 | 1547.9 | 1547.9 | Infra maint | 12000 | 12000 | 12000 | Internet | 11988 | 11988 | 11988 | Total network yr1 | 161014.9 |...
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...18, 2015 Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a cost effective and on-demand way to access data from servers, storages, databases, and applications over the internet as a service. The uses from cloud computing includes not only software as a service (SaaS), but also platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Cloud Computing has many advantages for everyday users of the internet through applications, such as Facebook or Google drive, to more intricate uses for businesses, such as outsourcing data and business applications. Cloud computing allows online applications to let their users access the application without the need of having to install, update, or manage the application. Also businesses use cloud computing as a way for cost- savings and more efficient processing by outsourcing their huge collections of data utilizing complex information systems. The main advantages of cloud computing are that it allows for easy storage and scalability, better processing, cost efficiency, backup recovery, and mobility. Companies dodge not having to create their own infrastructure of servers, not having to update and manage software or applications, not having to hire and train staff, and would even have decreased onsite energy cost. The powerful servers contained by the third party also allows for a more efficient processing, which is easier for the third party to do because their company is dedicated to effective storage of data. Also most cloud providers...
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...Setup a Personal Cloud Account Tyree Acker ITCS104 Cloud Computing ------------------------------------------------- What Is OwnCloud? OwnCloud is free and open source software that operates as a very simple way to set up your own syncing, Dropbox-like cloud storage system on your own server or web site. It's robust enough that it has replaced Dropbox for me in all except a few choice cases. It's also quick and easy to set up, and doesn't require advanced technical knowledge. OwnCloud is about as powerful as Dropbox, but it also allows people to make and share their own apps that run on ownCloud including text editors, task lists, and more. That means you can get a little more out of it then just file syncing if you want. At the core of it, ownCloud offers up super easy file syncing from your desktop to the cloud. Beyond that, you also get a music player built directly into ownCloud, a simple place to store contacts, a task manager, a syncing calendar, a bookmarking service, and a robust photo gallery. You'll be able to sync ownCloud with almost any desktop or mobile calendar and contacts app. That means if you want to ditch the likes of iCloud, ownCloud makes it easy to do. A recent update also added a simple install method so anyone can start using ownCloud right away. ------------------------------------------------- What information do you need to setup the account? You don't really need much to get started with ownCloud. Just gather up a web host that supports...
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...Cloud Computing Introduction Cloud computing is the idea of deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allows remote access to computer resources. Cloud computing is the term that describes the delivery of computer as service rather than a product. The internet is like a cloud. Cloud computing users use the services of the computing. They don’t have ideas about the location of the computer infrastructure. Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage resources to its users. If businesses look for the computing services without establishing computing infrastructure, the cloud can be the solution to achieve the objective. How Cloud Computing works? Cloud computing changed the way of computer uses. It changed the concepts of use web and store the data. Cloud computing is the structure which was used by the sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox. Let’s consider that the cloud consists layers. There is the back-end layers and the front-end layers. Front-end is the public part and users can interact with the front end layer. For example, when we access on Google Drive, the public user interface is visible to us. The back-end consists of hardware and software architecture that delivers the data to the front-end. There are many computers integrated to work together in the cloud technology. The front-end application can use all available computer power to provide the services to end users. Cloud computing uses the network...
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...Cloud Computing Praveen Reddy, Polam Wilmington University SEC-6040 1. Introduction Cloud computing is the term that describes about the computer related services through the internet. As technology developments are increased significantly, many individuals and businesses are interested to use software and hardware services that are managed by third parties at remote locations (Mirzaei, 2008). The term “ cloud “ can be truly understandable how the cloud can be a value to an organization by providing various services like online data storage, social networking, online business applications and webmail’s etc. because, the cloud computing allows access to information and computer related resources from any location that has network connection (Mirzaei, 2008). 2. Components of Cloud Computing: 2.1 Cloud Client: Clients play a key role in providing access for users to client devices which consists of computer software and hardware that depends on cloud computing for application delivery. And also there are several applications which are designed specifically for delivery of cloud services and it is essentially useless without the application. For example which can include devices like computers, mobile phones and applications like operating systems, browsers etc (Nichols, 2011). The cloud client has three different types, they are * Mobile clients. * Thick clients (Nichols, 2011). * Thin clients (Most popular) (Nichols, 2011). 2.2 Distributed Servers:...
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...What is Cloud? The term Cloud refers to a Network or Internet. In other words, we can say that Cloud is something which is present at remote location. Cloud can provide services over network i.e. on public networks or on private networks i.e. WAN, LAN or VPN. Applications such as e-mail, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), all run in cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing refers to manipulating, configuring, and accessing the applications online. It offers online data storage, infrastructure and application. We need not to install a piece of software on our local PC and this is how, the cloud computing overcomes platform dependency issues. Hence, the Cloud Computing is making our business application mobile and collaborative. Cloud Computing Technologies There are certain technologies that are working behind the cloud computing platforms making cloud computing flexible, reliable, usable. These technologies are listed below: * Virtualization * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) * Grid Computing * Utility Computing Virtualization Virtualization is a technique which allows to share single physical instance of an application or resource among multiple organizations or tenants(customers). It does so by assigning a logical name to a physical resource and providing a pointer to that physical resource when demanded. The Multitenant architecture offers virtual isolation among the multiple tenants and therefore, the organizations...
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...provides services to its internal clients and thus must support a wide range of applications and services. In 2002, the IT division decided to implement a storage area network (SAN) that in turn would meet the six (6) goals established in order to meet the needs of a growing company. In this paper we will take an in depth look at Carlson’s implementation of the SAN by 1) assessing how the Carlson SAN approach would be implemented in today’s environment; 2) comparing the pros and cons of consolidating data on a SAN central data facility versus the dispersed arrangement it replaces; 3) evaluating the issues raised from the Carlson SAN mixture of equipment from a number of vendors and determine the management options for dealing with this type of situation; 4) justifying the reduction of administration and management of storage networking through Carlson’s IP SAN; and 5) assessing how cloud computing could be used by Carlson instead of a SAN. Carlson SAN Approach The Carlson SAN approach in today’s environment can be assessed by the preparation, impact and benefits obtained by Carlson in using such an approach. Carlson established six (6) essential goals reliant on data and applications that would ensure the IT services provided continued to meet the needs of a growing company. In order to meet those goals, implementing a storage area network (SAN) that “provided a reliable, highly scalable facility to accommodate the increasing demand of its users” (Stallings, 2009) was...
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...[pic] Cloud computing in general isn’t a term that can be defined with one specific definition as different people from all over the world each have a different understanding of the term cloud computing. Hence the best way to effectively explain the term is to explain it using different examples. Some people believe the term to mean another way of describing IT (information technology), others use it to mean any computing service provided over the Internet or a similar network; and some define it as any bought-in computer service you use that sits outside your firewall. As you can seem, there is no straightforward definition for the term and therefore best way to understand it is to learn about how it works. The main point of cloud computing can be summed up with this one short sentence: “Access your data anytime and anywhere” What is the difference between cloud computing and old fashioned personal computing? An important thing that differentiates cloud computing to the now old fashioned and declining personal computing is the location where all the data is stored. In cloud computing the data is stored on a remote database operated by a third party which can be accessed from most places, as the main requirement to access this cloud storage is only an Internet connection. In personal computing, all data is stored on a hard drive or another form of data storage device such as a usb drive, and once the data storage limit is reached a bigger hard drive...
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...Cloud Computing Reginald L. Butler Dr. Jim Marion CIS 109 September 10, 2013 Cloud Computing History and Origns This quarter at Strayer University I took a course called Intro Management Information Systems online. There were many concepts and technologies we studied, but the one I was most fascinated about was Cloud Computing. Cloud technology has become very popular among consumers over the past decade. The tech is used in a wide variety of electronic devices such as PC’s, smart phones, tablets, streaming devices, etc. Even more important is the impact of cloud computing on the business market. They ways in which a company can use the cloud are limitless if they so choose to invest in the technology. Recently, both Sony and Microsoft stated that cloud technology will play a pivotal role with their next generation consoles coming out this fall. With all the talk of cloud computing going on today one has to wonder how did it become so popular? What are the origins of this new found tech and what will cloud computing evolve to in the future? Cloud computing is a technology that the world is just becoming familiar with, but the tech is not new. According to Wallace (2013), cloud computing was once referred to as “on-demand infrastructure” and has been around since the mid 90’s. Latter in 1995, the on-demand infrastructure was known as “Shared Web Hosting” which features included multi-tenant, automated provisioning, and an easy-to-use interface or (UI) as it’s known...
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...Cloud Computing Tutorial CLOUD COMPUTINGTUTORIAL Simply Easy Learning by tutorialspoint.com tutorialspoint.com i ABOUT THE TUTORIAL Cloud Computing Tutorial Cloud Computing provides us a means by which we can access the applications as utilities, over the internet. It allows us to create, configure, and customize the business applications online. This tutorial will take you through a step-by-step approach while learning Cloud Computing concepts. Audience This reference has been prepared for the beginners to help them to understand the basic-to-advanced concepts related to Cloud Computing. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on Cloud Computing concepts from where you can take yourself to a higher level of expertise. Prerequisites Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of Computers, Internet, Database and Networking concepts. Such basic knowledge will help you in understanding the Cloud Computing concepts and move fast on the learning track. Copyright & Disclaimer Notice All the content and graphics on this tutorial are the property of tutorialspoint.com. Any content from tutorialspoint.com or this tutorial may not be redistributed or reproduced in any way, shape, or form without the written permission of tutorialspoint.com. Failure to do so is a violation of copyright laws. This tutorial may contain inaccuracies or errors and tutorialspoint provides no guarantee regarding the accuracy of the site or its...
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...Your"company,"which"is"based"in"Canada,"has"terabytes"of"data"to"store"and"is" considering"a"cloud"computing"solution"for"data"storage."Identify"the"issues"that"should" be"considered"when"choosing"a"cloud"computing"provider"to"meet"your"data"storage" needs. Cloud computing is that permits the user a shared pool of computing resources over a network that contains all the programs the user needs to complete day to day tasks for his company. These programs include, applications, storage, computers and services, etc. Cloud computing has proven to be the fastest form of computing. It reached $88 billion revenue in 2011 and is expected to reach $145 billion by 2014 according to Gartner Inc. Technology consultants (Cheng and Borzo,2010, Veverka, 2010). Cloud computing can be private or public. Public cloud is regulated by an external service supplier such as Amazon Web Services. It is obtainable for the general public. Private cloud is an information centre that brings servers storage, data, networks, and applications together as a shared pool of virtualized services for the users within a company(Laudon,2013). Things to watch out for: Advantages: Safety: When using a trusted cloud computing service information is normally safer than being carried to places in susceptible devices such as laptop, USB etc. Cloud providers build their system in such a way that is dedicating towards the safety of the data of th user. cost efficient: The users are no longer required to input...
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