...Effects of Cloud Computing in the Global Business Environment Table of Contents INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..............3-4 CLOUD COMPUTING REDUCTION IN COST……………………………….………………………………….....….4-7 CLOUD COMPUTING AND THE CHANGE OR CREATION OF SERVICES ………………….………….7-10 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLOUD COMPUTING………………………………………..………………..……….10-12 COMPARISON OF COMPANIES BEFORE/AFTER CLOUD COMPUTING…….………………………12-15 US ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY………………………………………………………………………………………15 CLOUD COMPUTING PROVIDERS………………………………………………………………………………….....16-21 Salesforce.com……………………………………………………………………………………………………………....16-17 Amazon-Web Services…………………………………………………………………………………………….....17-19 Cisco Systems…………………………………………………………………………………………………...…..19-21 CLOUD AND INDUSTRY’S FUTURE………………………………………………………………………….……... 21-22 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………………………………….……...……. 22-23 EXHIBITS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…...…. 24 Annual Financials for Salesforce.com…………………………………………………………………..……..24-26 Annual Financials for Amazon-Web Services……………………………………………………….….27-29 Annual Financial for Cisco Systems………………………………………………………………………30-32 Financial Ratios……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….33 Grow Customer Base……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….33 Grow Market Share………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..33 Salesforce Historical Stock Chart……………………………………………………………………………..………………34 ...
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...Cloud Computing: The Benefits and the Downside Air, energy, the environment are intangible to the human eye, but yet all three play an integral part in our survival. Cloud computing relates to these three things because all of these could be adversely affected by cloud computing. Technology is an ever evolving and growing market dominated by the consumerism of Apple products and a world where instant gratification is gloried as information is processed in the matter of seconds. The evolution of technology has not only changed the way that we communicate with one another, but also the way in which businesses must conduct their daily transactions. A person in the United States can keep in touch with a friend thousands of miles of way in Brazil or England using Facebook or Twitter. World events spread in the same manner as wildfire, uniting citizens around the world with such topics as war and human rights. We live in a society in which technology has shaped the people that we are today. Most students in middle or high school have had access to a cellular phone since their birth. Beyond the surface of technology being used as a device to interact with one another, technology is used as a device to store information. Our society has transformed from storing information on a hard drive or a flash drive to the information being stored on the Internet via the concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing is the act in which information can be stored and reviewed over the Internet rather...
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...EBM510 - Information Processing and the Web Cloud Computing Research Paper Mahesh BahuleyanNair 000-14-6974 Abstract This research paper is to recommend or suggest cloud computing as an alternative to the obsolete and highly expensive traditional computing mechanisms. Cloud computing is a new general purpose Internet-based technology through which information is stored in servers and provided as a service and on-demand to clients. Cloud computing services including Infrastructure as a Service promise potential cost savings for businesses by offering remote, scalable computing resources. However attractive these services are, they pose significant security risks to customer applications and data beyond what is expected using traditional on-premises architecture. This paper identifies three basic types of threats related to the IaaS layer and eight kinds of attacks. These are aligned within the CIA model as a way to determine security risk. Cloud computing is a generalized term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into threesome categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The study darken computing was inspired by the darken symbol that's often utilized to equal the Internet in flowcharts and diagrams. A darken assist has threesome...
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...about cloud computing and how it is affecting the adoption in companies or organisations. This paper presents advantages disadvantages security of using this technology. This also deals with the importance of using this technology and information management takes place in organisations. It also deals with the improvisation of the flow of information with Cloud. In today’s globalised technological market Cloud computing is one of the most innovated information technologies. It is more attractive for business to adopt because it had many advantages which includes automatic software update, flexibility, increased collaboration. It’s cost effectiveness plays a major role in adopting this technology. Cloud based applications...
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...of paradigm and methodology 22 3.3 Data Collection Methods 23 3.3.1 Questionnaires 23 3.3.2 Interview 24 3.4 Data Analysis and Interpretation 25 3.5 Ethical Considerations 25 3.6 Chapter Summary 26 4 Introduction 27 4.1 Presentation and Analysis of data 28 4.1.1 Quantitative data analysis 29 4.1.2 Demographic Questions: 29 4.2 Technical question 32 4.2.1 Quantitative analysis 46 4.3 Quantitative analysis 46 4.4 Chapter summary: 47 4.5 Recommendation and suggestions 48 5 Introduction 49 5.1 Security assurance in cloud computing 50 5.1.1 Confidentiality 51 5.1.2 Correctness Assurance 51 5.1.3 Availability 51 5.1.4 Data Integrity 52 5.2 Security guideline 52 5.2.1 Cloud Service Provider Agent (CSPA) 54 5.2.2 Cloud Data Confidentiality Agent 55 5.2.3 Cloud Data Correctness Agent (CDCorA) 55 5.2.4 Cloud Data Availability Agent (CDAA) 56 5.2.5 Cloud Data Integrity Agent (CDIA) 57 5.3 Testing the framework 58 5.3.1 Strengths: 58 5.3.2 Weakness: 58 5.3.3 Opportunities: 58 5.4 Summery 59 6 Introduction 60 6.1 Research limitation 60 6.2 Recommendation for...
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...Cloud computing: benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources, not a new technology. Computing services ranging from data storage and processing to software, such as email handling, are now available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. Since we are in a time of belt-tightening, this new economic model for computing has found fertile ground and is seeing massive global investment. According to IDC’s analysis, the worldwide forecast for cloud services in 2009 will be in the order of $17.4bn1. The estimation for 2013 amounts to $44.2bn, with the European market ranging from €971m in 2008 to €6,005m in 2013 2. The key conclusion of ENISA’s 2009 paper on Cloud Computing: benefits, risks and recommendations for information security3 is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defences can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective. ENISA’s paper allows an informed assessment of the security risks and benefits of using cloud computing - providing security guidance for potential and existing users of cloud computing. The new economic model has also driven technical change in terms of: Scale: commoditisation and the drive towards economic efficiency have led to massive concentrations of the hardware resources required to provide...
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...Benefits and Risks of Corporate Cloud Computing To compete in the competitive world of business entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors alike must think outside the box. There is no secret with today’s economy and all the hype surrounding government incentives that a major fact to doing business on a global scale is an efficiency information system. Information systems is define as interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision-making, coordination, control, analysis, and visualization in an organization. (Laudon G-7) This is one of the largest burdens face by corporate America. How to overcome the costs and obstacles which confronts companies seeking to break ground into new industries with adequate tools to accomplish their business goals can seem insurmountable. The Cloud’s computing utilities enable a nimble start up to compete with the capacity of established competitors’ captive data centers. Cloud programming models promise to democratize the web, enabling end user application development that supports enterprise and even Internet scale applications. (D. Thomas) Therefore, with the ever changing rate of new technology development corporations with small to medium infrastructure requirements have turned to cloud computing. With lower investment, training, planning and hardware requirements businesses have seemingly reap the benefits of cloud computing. However, do the associated...
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...solutions to green cloud computing Thi Hong Nhung Huynh MSc Computing and Management 2010/2011 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is their own and the appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. I understand that failure to attribute material which is obtained from another source may be considered as plagiarism. (Signature of student) Abstract Cloud computing is a breakthrough innovation in information technology industry. It brings new efficiencies and advantages to business. There is much hype about environmental impacts of cloud computing on green issues. Some favour of cloud computing as solution to green issues while others blame cloud computing as burden to environmental problems. Cloud computing, nevertheless, like other technology, is neutral. It can be either cause or solution to environmental issues. There is growing pressure on cloud computing industry to reduce the environmental impacts of their data centres. The current trend focuses on developing green cloud computing. However, the evaluation of solutions to green cloud computing bases on certain standards, metrics and benchmarks, which assess only parts of the environmental issues with cloud computing. This report will concentrate on green issues with cloud computing. Significant positive and negative impacts of cloud computing on the environment issues will be investigated. Next, a classification of green issues with cloud computing also is offered...
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...Learning | 8 | Future scope | 9 | References | Executive summary Time-to-market, more flexible support for business strategies by IT, and faster response time to competitive conditions are combining to accelerate cloud computing adoption today. This report aims to learn the major aspects of IT sales especially in cloud computing, which involves understanding the technologies involved in the functioning of an IT business model. For this purpose, various articles were referred and few corporate visits were done within the span of two-week of the SLIP. The report discusses various information about overview of top IT companies, types of cloud, virtualization, Saas, Paas, DRaas, Capex, Opex, Marketing and pricing strategies involved in cloud solutions. Our professional mentor was from Zenith Infotech. Zenith Infotech is an international company that specializes in delivering innovative business continuity and cloud computing solutions for IT service providers. The report further discusses Zenith’s products,learnings imbibed from the programme and the future scope of cloud computing in detail. Literature Review 1.Identifying Cloud Computing Security Risks (February 2011) -Paul Wooley Tyco Electronics Abstract Cloud computing services including Infrastructure as a Service promise potential cost savings for businesses by offering remote, scalable computing resources. However attractive these services are, they pose significant security risks to customer applications...
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...client organization and cloud provider is a strong predictor of successful cloud deployment. By GaRy GaRRiSon, SanGhyun Kim, anD RoBin L. WaKeFieLD Success Factors for Deploying Cloud Computing “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be quickly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”14 The emergence of cloud computing is transforming the way organizations purchase and manage computing resources,17 providing a fundamentally different IT model in which a cloud provider might be responsible for a range of IT activities, including hardware and software installation, upgrades, maintenance, backup, data storage, and security. The result is that organizations can lower their IT capital expenditures ClOUD COMPUTiNg iS 62 Com muniCatio nS o F th e aCm | S epteM Ber 201 2 | vo L . 5 5 | N o. 9 and operating costs by purchasing ondemand technology resources (such as increased data storage, bandwidth, and processing power) while eliminating the need to maintain outdated equipment. Cloud services also include environments for application development and access to key technologies, software, and skilled IT personnel that might otherwise be too costly and difficult to obtain and maintain (see Figure 1). Along with hardware, software, and technology platforms, cloud computing delivers additional...
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...The Future of Cloud Computing Wesley Rhoades INF 103 Computer Literacy Anjit Bose, MBA December 2, 2013 Imagine a world where everything is ran by a network of computers centralized in one specific location. Businesses no longer required hardware and software to store their data on. Students didn’t have to sit in a classroom behind a desk listening to a teacher lecture them for an hour at a time. Imagine the money you would save just for the commuting alone. Warehouses that make and ship goods for companies could all be tracked by a bar code and becomes accessible wherever there is an internet connection. This is the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing has become another popular term after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for cloud computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a cloud is. On the other hand, cloud computing is not a completely new concept; it has intricate connection to the relatively new but thirteen-year established grid computing paradigm, and other relevant technologies such as utility computing, cluster computing, and distributed systems in general. This paper strives to compare and contrast cloud computing with grid computing from various angles and give insights into the essential characteristics of both. Cloud computing is something that a great many people have spent a good amount of time pondering. We’re seeing a new trend in software deployment and flexibility goal sets, and as a result, the future...
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...Project Management: Cloud Computing: Life in the Clouds Partial fulfillment of the requirements of 63.688.061 IT Project Management University of Massachusetts Lowell July 24, 2013 Abstract The purpose of this research is to determine, through case study, how cloud computing effects information technology project management. Throughout the paper I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. I will also discuss the factors in an organization adopting cloud computing, the platforms and architecture of cloud computing. The impact of adopting cloud computing on organizations now and in the future will be addressed. The conclusion and future implications are drawn from the implementation of this cloud computing project management module and literature. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Important Organizational Issues and Impacts 5 Adoption 5 Architecture 8 Platform 9 Layers of cloud computing 9 Private Cloud versus Public Cloud 12 Cloud Computing in Organizations 13 Concerns and Current Problems 14 Disadvantages of Cloud Computing 15 Benefits of Clouds Computing 17 Future Implications 20 Conclusion 22 References 24 Project Management: Cloud Computing: Life in the Clouds Introduction The goal of this paper is to explore the new phenomenon that is known as cloud computing. It is a term that if often thrown around and a lot of people think that they...
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...Cloud computing effects on IT helpdesk Cloud computing has had a sweeping impact on the technological infrastructure in nearly every conceivable aspect. From home computing, to huge global corporations, Clouds have become not only a benefit, but a standard in today’s world. Services such as data hosting, application access, branch caching, SaaS, security and maintenance, and more every day thanks to the relative ease with which anyone can access development resources. There is no question that cloud services are gaining momentum in many sectors. One of the interesting aspects of the uptake in cloud services is the number of small organizations that are moving to cloud services. Traditionally, IT innovations have seen early adopters in large organizations where economies of scale can help justify the initial cost of a new technology. Small organizations have typically been late adopters as they wait for the players to consolidate and technologies to become mainstream. Not so with cloud services. The fastest growing segment is small business. The most immediate implication is for small outsourcing and managed service providers. The value-add that they provide is eroded significantly when compared with cloud services. As larger organizations providing cloud-based solutions attract more small business customers, small IT shops will lose customers, margin, and traditional service opportunities. Until recently, the adoption of true IT-as-a-Service was hindered by a number...
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...provides enterprise software and computer hardware products and services. It develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems. It is organized into three businesses: software, hardware systems and services. Its software business consists of two segments: new software licenses and software license updates and product support. It’s hardware systems business consists of two segments: hardware systems products and hardware systems support. It authorizes database and middleware software, including database and database management, application server and cloud application, service-oriented architecture and business process management, business intelligence, identity and access management, data integration, Web experience management, portals, and content management and social network software, as well as development tools and Java, a software development platform; and applications software comprising enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, financials, governance, risk and compliance, procurement, supply chain management, enterprise portfolio project and enterprise performance management, business intelligence analytic applications, Web commerce, and industry-specific applications software. It also provides customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases; Internet access to technical content; and Internet and telephone access to technical support...
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...Cloud Computing Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Rev.B – December 2012 2 Cloud Computing Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Document History Date December 2009 Version 1.0 Modification Initial Release, Rev.A Author Daniele Catteddu, Giles Hogben Thomas Haeberlen Lionel Dupré December 2012 2.0 Rev.B About ENISA The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) is a centre of network and information security expertise for the EU, its member states, the private sector and Europe’s citizens. ENISA works with these groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice in information security. It assists EU member states in implementing relevant EU legislation and works to improve the resilience of Europe’s critical information infrastructure and networks. ENISA seeks to enhance existing expertise in EU member states by supporting the development of cross-border communities committed to improving network and information security throughout the EU. More information about ENISA and its work can be found at www.enisa.europa.eu. Contact details This report has been edited by: Lionel Dupré, Thomas Haeberlen For contacting ENISA or for general enquiries about this report, please use the following details: Email: resilience@enisa.europa.eu Internet: http://www.enisa.europa.eu Cloud Computing 3 Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Legal notice Notice...
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