...Research Skills Name Institution Table of Contents 1. Research Proposal 3 1.1. Rationale and Context 3 1.2. Aims 4 1.3. Research Question 5 1.4. Proposed Research Method 5 1.5. Ethical and Access Issues 6 1.6. Potential Value of Research 7 2. Initial Literature Review 8 References 14 Research Skills 1. Research Proposal 2.1. Rationale and Context Cambridge City Government is an institution that is currently facing problems with the management of its information transfer over the internet. This is seen in the need to align data, particularly revenue streams, incomes and expenditures. In fact, the situation is worsened by an increasing city population, as well as amenities complexities that are placing a strain on the available internet facilities that serve the institution. As such, the proposed research study intends to analyse the role that cloud computing could play in solving the information transfer problems that face the government. The research results will act as the blueprint for the city administrators to develop and implement networking management approaches that will address its needs. I assume that if cloud computing is determined to be advantageous for the government, then its implementation will make it easier for the institution to meet its information management needs. This proposal describes the approach to research that will be adopted for the proposed study. Kenrick et al. (2010, pp. 293-294) argue that the cognitively driven constructs...
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...AMBA 600 1141 | “How Can New Cloud Technologies be Implemented in Government Contracting?” | | | Stephen Roane | 5/11/2015 | Executive Summary: Recently cloud computing has been a hot topic in the news. The reason is because cloud computing has a lot of potential. Cloud technology could revolutionize the way that businesses operate. Recently the Department of Defense (DOD) granted security approvals to a number of companies that provide cloud technology. This technology could have a significant impact on the way that procurement is done in the Federal Government. Utelizing this new technology could create cost savings, give remote access and create flexibility. Along with these advantages that cloud technology can potentially offer comes some issues. The main issue that cloud technology presents is security threats to the information that the cloud itself will store. On 4 May 2015 the Department of Defense granted new security approvals to 23 cloud providers. The reason why this is important in the Contract/Procurement field is because this will allow contract writing systems to operate via a cloud application. The use of cloud technologies will create cost savings and offer “flexibility and agility to respond to new challenges and opportunities.” (McKendrick, 2013) Cloud systems have their pros and cons. Some of the pros are the flexibility and access, which could be a plus to any federal agency. On the other hand the major con is security. ...
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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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...Keller Graduate School of Management May 13, 2012 Table of Contents 1. Proposal 2. Company Background 3. Business Issues 4. Benefits of Solving the Business Issues 5. How to Approach the Solution to Resolve the Business Issues 6. High level the solution. 7. Proposal Topic This proposal will discuss the general issues of data migration via clouding. Computer Clouding has become a major part of every companies IT strategy. Yet in integrating this can be very challenging for most companies. Here we will focus on a company (Salesforce), which is consider to be one of the leading companies for cloud servicing and their issues in which they may have had to face. Company Background Salesforce was founded less than 10 years ago, in March 1999 by Marc Benioff. Saleforce is an online software service company that distributes business software and better known for its CRM products Customer Relationship Management (CRM) products, which went public and sold for fifteen dollars a share. SalesForce services are now translated into 16 different languages and currently have 100,000 customers and over 2.1 million subscribers. SalesForce is also the leading company in shifting to the social enterprise, which affords mobile and open cloud services to their customers anytime and anywhere. Salesforce reported revenue of $2.27 billion, an increase of 37% from the prior...
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...services. The information included in or with this document, in its entirety, is considered both confidential and proprietary and may not be copied or disclosed to any third party, without the prior written consent of the SMB Group. The content of this proposal supersedes that of any previous proposal. This proposal is valid for thirty (30) days from the proposal date above. SMB Group, Inc. ( www.smb-gr.com ) | 17 Lancaster Rd. Northborough, MA 01532 | (508)410-3562 (P) October 24, 2012 Vishrut Parikh Director, Product Marketing NetSuite 2955 Campus Drive, Suite 100 San Mateo, CA 94403-2511 Dear Vishrut, Thank you for the opportunity to submit a proposal for a whitepaper about the TCO of Cloud/SaaS Delivered Integrated Business Application Suite vs. On-premise Solutions for SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises. This paper will highlight the total cost of ownership of NetSuite’s integrated cloud business application suite vs. comparable on-premise based ERP applications. We realize that you have many choices when selecting a research and consulting partner. The SMB Group is committed to providing real value and unsurpassed satisfaction in both our working relationship and in the services we provide to you. We hope this proposal meets your expectations. We will be happy to modify it as necessary to best meet your requirements. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to working with you. Sincerely, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Founder...
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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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...Integrating an Efficient ERP System to introduce virtual billing and Inventory Management at Penske Truck Rental Proposal Topic This proposal will introduce the integration of efficient billing and inventory maintenance throughout Penske Truck Rental, the impact it will have in comparison to current operations, and proposes a solution. Penske sustains multiple ERP systems (RentalNet, ServiceNet, AS400, etc.) as well as maintains physical copies of inbound and outbound vehicle inspections. Throughout all the divisions, this standard has led to an absence of IT costs as the individual systems are not responsible for storing data significant to the lifespan of the vehicles as it relates to damages. Financial records are not readily accessible to consumers as data is only stored in a system manageable through Penske employees. These seemingly minor details promotes the absenteeism of technology. Incorporating the use of a more efficient ERP system in a cloud computing environment will impact the structure to manage, acquire, and utilize data for billing and operations. Problem The business problem to be addressed and solved is how to better utilize IT to reduce responsibility of employee operations, increase awareness of equipment inventory management as well as financial management aspects of Penske Truck Rental. Approach Define the margins of the cloud computing systems to determine how to integrate efficient ERP platforms to incorporate IT costs, advance the financial reporting...
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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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...PERFORMANCE OF CLOUD BY LOAD BALANCING (Research Proposal) Literature Review Recent days, cloud computing is an improving area in research and industry, which includes virtualization, distributed computing, internet, and web services. A cloud contains elements such as data centers, clients, distributed servers, internet which includes fault tolerance, high accessibility, efficiency, scalability, flexibility, reduced overhead for users, less cost of ownership, on demand services and etc. The main objectives of cloud are to reduce cost, enhance response time, and provide better performance. There are three types of cloud computing based on the service they provide. 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Infrastructure as a service contains the basic building blocks for cloud and typically provide access to networking features, computers and data storage space. 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platforms as a service provides the feature to manage the infrastructure and allow to focus on the deployment and management of applications. 3. Software as a Service (SaaS) Software as a service provides with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. Cloud has many benefits all along with some fundamental problems to be resolved in order to improve Performance of cloud environment. These problems are associated with load management, tolerance and different security issues in cloud environment. Load balancing Load balancing is an important part of cloud computing...
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...Table of Contents I. Proposal a. Subject of Proposal b. Business Problem Statement c. Solutions d. Benefits e. Audience II. Milestone 1 a. Business Issues b. Benefits of Solving the Problem c. Business/Technical Approach d. Solution III. Milestone 2 a. Cloud Virtualization Vendor b. Value of Approach c. How to accomplish it IV. Milestone 3 a. Summary of Plan b. Overall Conclusion Proposal/ Problem Statement Going to the doctor’s office for an appointment can turn into a very long and tiresome affair. Upon arriving, you have to check in, only to wait in a very long line to put your name down. Next, comes the seemingly endless process of waiting to get your name called which often takes up to an hour on a busy day. Finally, after being taken to the examination room, there is yet another half hour wait. So, what ends up taking only about five minutes of the actual doctors time, leaves you with half the day gone. These issues of several different waiting periods are what many patients deal with and often lead to hesitation in actually making an appointment. The lackluster communications involved in this structure is what makes this a bad business to operate. Essentially, a doctor’s office is a business, and like any other business, customers are vital. However, in a fast moving society where the economy is struggling, time is money and many people do not have the luxury to sit and wait. These inefficient...
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...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 though...
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...Source: Rogers Wireless Title: Scope of work on LI solutions for Mobile Cloud Services Document for: Discussion and decision Agenda Item: Work Item / Release: LI Rel-12 Contact Information: George Babut, george.babut@rci.rogers.com; Ed O’Leary (ed.oleary@rci.rogers.com) Introduction This contribution proposes text for the Background on Mobile Cloud Service section of the living document on LI solutions for Mobile Cloud Services. Proposal ***********************First addition****************************** 4 Background on Mobile Cloud Services 4.1 General “Cloud computing, including distributed virtual services, is an evolving paradigm that is fundamentally and rapidly changing communication services and infrastructure. The diversity of these services and the underlying infrastructure has itself produced different perspectives. In general, most of the many forums dealing with cloud computing have found common ground in the following description (Special Publication 800-145, The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, Sept 2011 [x])” ( ETSI DTR 101 567 V0.0.5 Lawful Interception (LI);Cloud/Virtual Services (CLI) [y]. Definition of “Cloud Computing” According to NIST: “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)...
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...5/31/2011 LEVERAGING CLOUD COMPUTING FOR GREATER BUSINESS AGILITY Ramesh Shanmuganathan Executive Vice President / Group CIO 1 John Keells Group 4 th June 2011 AGENDA TODAY’S BUSINESS CONTEXT DEMYSTIFYING CLOUD COMPUTING WHY CLOUD COMPUTING? WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS? WHAT DO I NEED TO CONSIDER? HOW DO I GET ON BOARD? CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR KEY TAKE AWAY! 2 TODAY’S BUSINESS CONTEXT 3 1 5/31/2011 Today’s Business Context ►Global competition ►Rampant Change ►Faster flow of information and communication ►Increasing Business Complexity ►Pervasive Globalisation 4 Forces Driving the New Economy ►Knowledge : Intellectual Capital ►Change : Continuous rapid and complex ►Globalization : in R&D, technology, production, trade, finance, communication and information, which has resulted in opening of economies, global hypercompetition and interdependency of business. 5 IT NEEDS TO ADAPT TO THE BUSINESS CONTEXT Robust IT, Services, and Solutions based Foundation Dynamically adapts to changing business conditions Tightens link between IT and business objectives Anticipate and rapidly respond to new market requirements Create and capture new opportunities Includes: Technology, Services and Solutions 6 2 5/31/2011 IT NEEDS TO DELIVER DECISION READY INFORMATION 7 “4” critical Qs “Data is exploding “New business & and it’s in silos” process demands ” I Need Insight How can we take advantage of the wealth...
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...Preventing Session Hijacking in Cloud Computing Sasha Melanie Personal Research Paper 20th October 2015 Abstract The idea of Cloud processing is turning out to be a well-known concept every passing day particularly in the field of computing and information technology. It refers to both applications that are conveyed as administrations over the Internet and also as resources (software and hardware) in the data centres. With this kind of advancement, the cloud computing technology raises many security concerns. There are several vulnerabilities that come along with cloud computing that may be exploited by attackers through security threats such as session hijacking. This paper gives an overview of the cloud as well as session hijacking highlighting the key vulnerability areas that every organization need to put into consideration before any implementation of cloud computing. The paper gives the basis for further research that would help curb the challenge of session hijacking in cloud computing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 2 CHAPTER ONE 5 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Motivation for the study 6 1.2 Premises of the study 7 1.3 Problem Statement 7 1.4 Technical objectives of the study 7 CHAPTER TWO 9 2.0 RELATED WORK 9 2.1 Issues with Cloud Computing 9 2.2 ANALYSIS OF SESSION HIJACKING 9 2.2.1 Cookies: 10 2.2.2 TCP session capturing 10 2.3 PREVENTING SESSION HIJACKING 11 2.3.2 Information encryption programming 11 2.3.3 Virus Detection Applications 12 2.3.4 Digitized...
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