...Cloud Computing – Potential New Era in Enterprise IT ‘Cloud Computing’ - the ICT buzzword these days is not as hazy as many IT professionals in the MEA region perceive it to be. In reality, it is merely a culmination of smarter ways of computing and data analysis. IT managers and enthusiasts have been talking about dynamic IT for over 10 years now and finally technology has progressed enough to induce a dynamic IT environment by deploying a smart mix of hardware, software and services. The involvement of software in traditional data centers aims to address the biggest business demands of IT – speed, cost, scale and richest variety of business solutions. Cloud computing is basically a software alternative that provides infrastructure, network, storage and management services to businesses by leveraging connectivity. The basic server infrastructure in data centers can be compared to a virtual server environment existing over the internet. The applications provided by processors and servers can all be networked through the internet making it a software environment. Some of the key attributes that characterize a cloud service include: shared/standard service, self-service, elastic scaling, use-based pricing and leveraging internet standards. The idea of a ‘cloud’ goes beyond convenience and has multiple silver linings. By reducing the traditional costs and labor associated with deploying, maintaining and upgrading business technology, IT departments have the potential to...
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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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...ultimate task for Tennenhouse and Mulder was not only to drive in new ventures, but also to develop a strategy to incubate and track the progress of their investments. In this paper, I will identify Tennenhouse’s strategy, as well as the hurdles that he had to overcome in identifying these strategies and implementations.I will then provide my interpretation and insight, as well as some suggestions to the problems that Tennenhouse and Mulder faced. Leveraging his experience from DARPA, Tennenhouse implemented an exploratory research strategy that placed emphasis on “sensing” the environment. His plan was to plant agents in areas that had an abundant amount of resources, information, and technical spark. Typically, universities with a dominant science and engineering history would be a prevalent place to start. These agents, also known as lablets, were designed to be the stomping grounds for research of both internal Intel engineers and student engineers as well as faculty and graduate students of adjacent universities. The strategy, leveraging the proximity of lablets to the...
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...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 4 Supply Chain Management 4 Benefits of a cloud-based SCM solutions 4 Drawbacks of a cloud-based SCM Solution 5 Customer Relationship Management 5 Benefits of cloud-based system CRM solutions 6 Drawbacks of cloud-based CRM solutions 6 Leveraging Cloud-based SCM and CRM solutions to Improve Business Strategy 7 Enhancing...
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...CIO header Logo MAGAZINE WHITE PAPERS EVENTS WEBINARS LOGIN JOIN NEWSCASE STUDIESOPINIONSSLIDESHOWSARTICLESCEO INTERVIEWSVIDEOSCIO INTERVIEWS MORE CIO.inNewsSPECIAL REPORT: Why Are Xiaomi Phones So Inexpensive? 3 inShare NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Why Are Xiaomi Phones So Inexpensive? Added 19th May 2014 By Michael Kan SPECIAL-REPORT-Why-Are-Xiaomi-Phones-So-Inexpensive_300x225.jpg Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi has made a name for itself by selling iPhone-like gear for almost a third of the price of Apple products. It may sound too good to be true, but the company is managing to sell millions of phones and is already kicking off a global expansion. So how does it pull it off? For one thing, Xiaomi claims to price its phones just above their costs. But company officials also point to its iconoclastic business model, which eschews the financial burden of using traditional marketing and distribution practices, and relies on the Internet to fuel sales. It's made Xiaomi into a company that doesn't operate like a typical smartphone vendor, but still successful enough to become one of China's hottest tech firms. Disrupting the market When Xiaomi unveiled its first flagship Mi 1 phone in August 2011, attention was fixated on the device's price. Consumers could buy what was then a cutting-edge smartphone for 1,999 yuan (US$324). This was a major bargain compared to other high-end phones including the iPhone 4, which started at 4,999 yuan. Xiaomi maintained the initial...
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... Cloud Storage Security The need to reduce costs and enable IT respon¬siveness to business change is driving more and more applications, including critical ones, to various types of cloud platforms. While cloud providers can implement many of the same security measures required of an internal IT group, many companies are still wary. This is especially true for less expensive, multitenant public cloud environments that are inherently less secure than in-house IT environments, assuming that the onsite, internal IT environments follow proper security procedures and have the right technology and standards in place. This means building security and trust architec¬tures that ensure each company’s applications and data are isolated and secure from those of other customers in a multitenant environment. By adhering to emerging security standards and leveraging encryption service providers can provide security services that meet security expectations. Whether adopted in public, private or hybrid form, the cloud imposes unique and stringent security demands. But with appropriate levels of security, trust and governance, service providers can provide a secure environment for data and appli¬cations. The information researched was informative and helped reinforce some preexisting ideas I had about Cloud storage security. Information was presented clearly and to the point. I do wish the articles talked more about ownership of information stored on cloud storage. User agreements...
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...Literature Review "Amazon enters $600M deal to develop CIA cloud; Federal Computer Weekly reports that Amazon is signing a 10-year, $600 million contract to build a cloud computing system for the CIA.." The Christian Science Monitor. (March 21, 2013 Thursday ): 615 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2013/05/10. My research company, Amazon, has become a huge internet presence since 1994. Amazon has joined forces with many big internet companies such as Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest, all of which offer infrastructure and application services and are part of Amazon’s web services. Now Amazon has taken their involvement with internet services to a whole new level. It is rumored that Amazon has recently signed a deal with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) to build and manage a private cloud infrastructure. Currently, Amazon provides public cloud service in which they offer resources like applications and storage to the general public. For this new venture with the CIA, Amazon has been beefing up its security options to make its public cloud act more like a private one. There is also speculation of talks that the CIA will also work with Amazon on leveraging their public cloud services as well. Currently the CIA utilizes smaller-scale cloud providers which are a combination of several private clouds that do not offer the ability to keep up with emerging technologies nor are cost-effective. The talks initiated from an attack on the CIA website back in...
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...Paper Critique: “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” Reviewer: Carol Williams 1. (10%) State the problem the paper is trying to solve. The paper is trying to demonstrate that EMV (a protocol suite and proprietary protocol framework) is broken and needs to be fixed. The paper makes an attempt to clarify terms, provide simple formulas to quantify comparisons between of cloud and everyday Computing, and identify the top technical and non-technical obstacles and opportunities of Cloud Computing. It also states that confusion by clarifying terms, providing simple figures to quantify comparisons between of cloud and conventional Computing, and identifying the top technical and non-technical obstacles and opportunities of Cloud Computing. “We argue that the construction and operation of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer datacenters at lowcost locations was the key necessary enabler of Cloud Computing, for they uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, network bandwidth, operations, software, and hardware available at these very large economies of scale. These factors, combined with statistical multiplexing to increase utilization compared a private cloud, meant that cloud computing could offer services below the costs of a medium-sized datacenter and yet still make a good profit.” 2. (20%) State the main contribution of the paper: solving a new problem, proposing a new algorithm, or presenting a new evaluation (analysis)...
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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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...inefficiencies negatively impact the Federal Government’s ability to serve the American public. Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery. Amtrak, one of top client for Lockheed Martin is facing similar challenges to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure maintenance in their data center operations. Lockheed Martin has a unique cloud model which is focused on providing solutions as a service based on a mission focused approach to secure cloud delivery. They have successfully implemented cloud services for many clients. This study specifically focused on implementing the cloud computing strategy and services provided by Lockheed Martin that can significantly help Amtrak to provide highly reliable, innovative services in an efficient manner and at the same time reduce IT operating costs. Interviews were conducted with key business stakeholders at Amtrak and also with some of the IT project team members to learn about the existing data center model set up, data storage, and the hardware and software applications that are currently used. Interviews were also conducted with employees to understand the perception of cloud system infrastructure services and how it can help them. This report concludes that Lockheed Martin is deeply involved in delivery of cloud computing services to his clients and will provide a unique cloud computing framework that can benefit Amtrak. The challenge at Amtrak is that even...
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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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...CLOUD COMPUTING NAME: INSTITUTION: Question 1. What is the most appropriate Cloud Deployment model (or combination) for BPI (Public, Private, Community, or Hybrid)? One of the main things that we need to understand in the process of selecting the appropriate cloud development model for BPI is to understand what cloud deployment is all about. Cloud has been used for a while now and as business and security comes, it is predicted to be rising faster as years come by. The ubiquitous term cloud refers to anything that is being delivered today through the internet and in simple terms, cloud is where one can rent technology and information services on the internet through the providers. Most companies are today turning their focus on leveraging the cloud so as to cut down their capital expenditure and this is the same case with BPI which is looking for a better way to control its operating cost, therefore there is a high need for BPI to seek cloud adoption. It is vital to understand that cloud sometimes come with security risks for the IT department, which can turn out to be severely expensive for BPI to deal with, based on the current financial stress that the company is experiencing. Therefore, it is very vital for BPI to understand its requirements as it opts to a deployment model that is available on cloud. There are four different types of deployment models and these are: the private cloud, the public cloud, the hybrid cloud and the community cloud. BPI is a multinational company...
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...The power of cloud You can hardly look at an IT strategy document today without seeing mention of cloud computing, even though it has been around for years. This model has now crossed the chasm to penetrate corporate America, which traditionally relied on internal infrastructure. This is a significant shift in IT mindset in what will certainly be remembered as a disruptive technology strategy that changed the way the world works, literally. What is cloud? Cloud computing is a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications, services). Typically, these are highly scalable resources delivered over the Internet to multiple companies, which pay only for what they use. Cloud delivery models can help organizations scale their investments as they grow their business. They can also open the door to new business approaches through standardized applications, infrastructure, testing environments and business processes that help improve service delivery and efficiency. Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped. Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value chains...
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...Master’s Project Overview The public library faces an interesting challenge over the next few years: as it progresses to the digital age at a feverish pace it must meet an insatiable demand for data storage. It is estimated that the at-risk audio/video material in the library’s collections – items that exist only in NYPL and for which there is only one copy – will require 10 petabytes of disk space to store in digital format. The amount is staggering, but not unrealistic. This number can grow exponentially if other materials are considered. Given the recent emergence of “big data” storage solutions, such as that provided by Isilon Systems, the technology to grow such large systems for unstructured data is readily available. However, the cost is considerable and great challenges exist in the concepts of vendor lock-in, data validity, bit-rot, and ongoing migrations. This challenge exists not only for libraries and similar institutions vying to keep digital representations online for prosperities sake, it also bleeds into other industries such as health-care, financials, and media. Implementing a commercially available storage system does not guarantee such availability. Having this data in one place for example exposes it to total loss in case of a disaster. Replicating the content, while necessary, can greatly increase capital expenditures. Tape backup of multi-petabyte environments are impractical, costly, and unreliable. Hierarchical storage systems offer varying levels...
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...Leveraging Cloud Provider Spot Markets For Low Cost Web Application Hosting [Project Proposal] Mark Vieira Adam Best Joshua Lucas Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs mvieira@uccs.edu abest@uccs.edu jlucas@uccs.edu ABSTRACT Cloud hosting providers are increasingly offering spot markets as a means of offering low cost instance hosting and incentivizing spot instance usage during off-peak times. This presents a unique opportunity for applications to leverage this low cost hosting option. In this proposal we explore how we intend implement a web application framework compatible with the dynamic nature of spot markets as well as analyze the potential cost savings possible by supplementing web server capacity with spot market instances. 1. INTRODUCTION With cloud hosting quickly becoming the most common means of hosting software applications, more and more pricing models are becoming available. Spot markets provide a good opportunity for cloud provider customers to leverage compute time at significantly lower costs. In this proposal we will consider specifically the Amazon EC2 spot market and pricing model. Amazon EC2’s pricing model charges customers an hourly rate for currently running instances. In the traditional model this hourly rate is constant. In the spot market model the hourly rate...
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