...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...
Words: 1735 - Pages: 7
...Cloud Computing – the Challenges!! ABSTRACT The word ‘cloud’ has become the hottest buzzword these days. Everything has started moving towards cloud and we could feel that ‘Cloud Computing’ as a revolutionary concept that is going to bring us to Internet ubiquity. At the same time there are also barriers to it. This paper discusses about various cloud-computing challenges, security challenges for cloud & security benefits of cloud. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Cloud Computing Challenges 4 Security Challenges 4 Data Security 5 Cloud Computing Security Issues 5 Security Benefits 6 Conclusion 7 Introduction Cloud Computing delivers information or services to customers who pay for what they use. The customer can be an external person or company who is paying for a service or information or an internal customer, such as the application proprietor who is using services that another division within the same company is offering, and who is being charged for consumption. There are two different types of clouds – Public cloud and Private cloud. In public cloud the information and services provided to the customer are from external sources and in private cloud customer gets the information from internal sources. With the public cloud, the customer does not own any storage or server and also no capital expenditure; the customers merely pay money for what they need on demand. With the private cloud, the customer is an internal customer so the company...
Words: 1970 - Pages: 8
...|RESEARCH PROPOSAL | |On | |CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECUTITY | |Submitted | |for Ph.D. Approval | | | | | |By Mr. MBANZABUGABO Jean Baptiste(BE,MSSE,MCA) | TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT..................................................................................................3 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................4 1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.................................................................................................. 5 2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES .......................................................................5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ...........................................................................6 3. METHODOLOGY...
Words: 6240 - Pages: 25
...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...
Words: 35464 - Pages: 142
...INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE White Paper 1st Edition, June 2009 Abstract Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that allows it to support every facet, including the server, storage, network, and virtualization technology that drives cloud computing environments to the software that runs in virtual appliances that can be used to assemble applications in minimal time. This white paper discusses how cloud computing transforms the way we design, build, and deliver applications, and the architectural considerations that enterprises must make when adopting and using cloud computing technology. This page intentionally left blank. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................... 1 Sun’s perspective ................................................................................................ 1 The Nature of Cloud Computing ....................................................................... 3 Building on established trends............................................................................. 3 Virtual machines as the standard deployment object ........................................ 3 The on-demand, self-service, pay-by-use model .....................................
Words: 11952 - Pages: 48
...CLOUD COMPUTING: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE John P. Sahlin (sahlinj@gwu.edu) The George Washington University, United States of America ABSTRACT Defining cloud computing can be difficult, as each organization often has its own spin on the definition. Despite being hard to define, Gartner Research named cloud computing as one of the top technologies to watch in 2010, 2011, and 2012. At its core, cloud computing is a technical architecture that meets a specific business need. This chapter traces the roots of cloud computing from its origins in mainframe distributed computing, discusses the basics of the cloud computing model today, and offers insights for future directions that are likely to be pursued in the cloud computing arena. A number of challenges to cloud computing are identified, including concerns of security and how to deal with the rise of mobile computing. The chapter ends with recommendations on how to choose which cloud model is most appropriate to meet your organization’s needs and how to establish a successful cloud strategy. INTRODUCTION: DEFINING THE CLOUD I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it. ~ Hon. Potter Stewart (U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Why did Gartner Research place cloud computing at the top of the list of most important technology focus areas for the past three years...
Words: 13736 - Pages: 55
...What’s New About Cloud Computing Security? Yanpei Chen Vern Paxson Randy H. Katz Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2010-5 http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-5.html January 20, 2010 Copyright © 2010, by the author(s). All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. What’s New About Cloud Computing Security? Yanpei Chen, Vern Paxson, Randy H. Katz CS Division, EECS Dept. UC Berkeley {ychen2, vern, randy}@eecs.berkeley.edu ABSTRACT While the economic case for cloud computing is compelling, the security challenges it poses are equally striking. In this work we strive to frame the full space of cloud-computing security issues, attempting to separate justified concerns from possible over-reactions. We examine contemporary and historical perspectives from industry, academia, government, and “black hats”. We argue that few cloud computing security issues are fundamentally new or fundamentally intractable; often what appears “new” is so only relative to “traditional” computing of the past several...
Words: 5878 - Pages: 24
...competitive environment. Without replacing these elements, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) came to represent “a larger scope that reflected the evolution of application integration beyond manufacturing” (Sheilds and Mureell, 2005). According to Anurag (2009), MRP evolved into ERP as managers noticed that ‘routings’ and capacity planning activity had become essential parts of the software architecture. ERP was firstly introduced by Gartner Group Inc in 1990s, generally defined as a process by which a company manages and integrates different parts or areas of its business, for instance, purchasing, inventory, sales, marketing, finance, human resources and so on. In this essay, we will firstly, illustrate the origin and development of ERP and then, investigate how and why it emerged and diffused in 1990s. After that, intended and unintended effects of ERP will be evaluated. Finally, the conclusion will be drawn and recommendation of future research will be given. The main objective of this essay is to learn ERP in all aspects and put efforts to evaluate it. In order to lower total costs in the entire supply chain, save throughput time, reduce inventory, provide better delivery and also satisfy customers, ERP became more inclusive to solve practical problems. By the mid-1990s, ERP was enriched to be more substantiated, including accounting, maintenance, human-resource components and so on. Meanwhile, it could not only address enterprise function problems, but also increase efficiency of...
Words: 3554 - Pages: 15
...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” [11] or in simple terms – “low cost flexible entry and exit”...
Words: 4831 - Pages: 20
...Processor and Core 8 Hardware 8 Benefits from Upgrading to Operating System Utilizing a Multi-Processor 9 Steps to Upgrade the Processor and Core 9 Requirements Supporting the Upgrade 10 Conclusion 10 Scheduling Algorithm 11 In First-Come First-Served Scheduling 11 Benefits and Challenges Presented by FCFS 12 Round robin scheduling 12 Benefits and Challenges Presented by Round Robin Scheduling 13 Conclusion 14 Distributed Computing Environment 15 Operating System Concurrency Mechanism 15 Grid Computing 16 Concurrency control mechanisms in handling communications and synchronization 17 OS Security Risks and Mitigation Strategy 18 The main areas of the operating system that are evaluated for performing the risk assessment are: 20 Prioritization risks in the operating system: 21 Risk mitigations for the risks in the operating systems: 24 Emerging Technologies and Architecture 26 Cloud Computing 26 Remote Procedure Call (RPC) 27 Object Request Broker (ORB) 28 Advantages of Cloud Computing to Jinx 29 Advantages of RPCs 29 Advantages of using ORB 30 How Jinx Will Benefit from these Technologies 30 References 32 Appendix A 34 Company Background Jinx Transport & Logistics Company (JT &LC) was established in the 90s by two brothers commonly known as Jinx Brothers and the company deal in ferry parcel...
Words: 7042 - Pages: 29
...Cloud computing A collection of working papers Thomas B Winans John Seely Brown Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently dismissed without catching the improvements to hosting called utility computing that permit near realtime, policy-based control of computing resources. Or it may be interpreted to mean only data center hosting rather than understood to be the significant shift in Internet application architecture that it is. Perhaps it is the name. Certainly it is more nebulous than mnemonic, if you’ll pardon the poor pun. We happen to think so too. We’d rather use the term service grid, frankly, but that name also has its problems. The fact is that cloud and service grid computing are paradigmatically different from their common interpretations, and their use can shed light on how internet architectures are constructed and managed. Cloud computing represents a different way to architect and remotely manage computing resources. One has only to establish an account with Microsoft or Amazon or Google to begin building and deploying application systems into a cloud. These systems can be, but certainly are not restricted to being, simplistic. They can be web applications that require only http services. They might require a relational database. They might require web service infrastructure and message queues...
Words: 20471 - Pages: 82
...Information Systems Dissertation The Impact of Cloud Computing on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Word Count: 12,497 Abstract In recent years a new computing paradigm has emerged: Cloud Computing. Whilst there seem to be an endless number of definitions for this new term, including one by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is nearly 800 words long, nobody seems to be able to settle on a true characterisation of the subject matter. In its simplest form cloud computing can be described as IT-as-a-service. Instead of building your own IT infrastructure to host databases or software, a third party hosts them on their own servers. Companies have access to their data and software over the internet (which in most diagrams is depicted as a cloud). However, is this new paradigm simply a new term for something we are already doing or is it truly going to change the future of IT as we know it? This dissertation investigates the phenomenon commonly known as cloud computing, focussing closely on its impact on small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s), and ultimately attempts to assess the future of cloud computing. The research throughout this paper is based solely on secondary research. No primary research into the topic area has been made. In order to gain a broad view and understanding of the topic various existing papers and studies, on the topic of cloud computing and technology adoption within SME’s, have been studied and critiqued...
Words: 18031 - Pages: 73
...Strategy Formulation Capstone Project Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Company Background 3 Strategic Overview 3 Initial Analysis of Objectives 5 EXTERNAL ANALYSES 6 Environmental Scan 6 Political 7 Economic 7 Social 7 Technological 7 Environmental 8 Legal 8 Three Future Trends 9 Scenario 1: Shift from Hardware to Software Focus 9 Scenario 2: Cloud Computing 12 Scenario 3: Developing markets 14 INTERNAL ANALYSIS 15 Resource-Based View Analysis 15 Tangible Resources 15 Intangible resources 17 Value Chain Analysis 18 Primary 18 Secondary 20 Core Competencies Assessment 21 SWOT Analysis 23 GENERIC STRATEGIES 24 DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS 25 Where are they heading? 25 Where would they like to be? 25 How do they get there? 26 RECOMMENDATIONS 27 APPENDIX 28 REFERENCES 33 INTRODUCTION Company Background BlackBerry Limited, previously known as Research In Motion Limited is a wireless telecommunication equipment manufacturer, well known for its brand of smartphones and tablets of the same name. Originally founded in 1984 by Mike Lazardis, the company was managed with a dual CEO structure where Mr. Lazardis oversaw technical functions and partner Jim Balsillie oversaw sales/marketing. When stock prices began to falter, shareholder criticism of this leadership style caused both men stepped down for Thorsten Heins. He ran the company until November 2013, when he was replaced by John Chen, following the collapse of a deal...
Words: 9574 - Pages: 39
...Essentials of Management Information Systems, 9e (Laudon/Laudon) Chapter 4 IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software 1) IT infrastructure technology is the set of physical devices required to operate the entire enterprise. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 117 AACSB: Use of IT CASE: Comprehension 2) Today, most system and application software is custom built by in-house programmers. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 118 AACSB: Reflective Thinking CASE: Comprehension 3) Systems integration means ensuring the legacy systems work with new elements of the infrastructure. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 119 AACSB: Use of IT CASE: Comprehension 4) One of the main benefits of moving to mobile business computing platforms is the dramatically lower costs of hardware. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 145 AACSB: Reflective Thinking CASE: Comprehension 5) Today most business firms have discontinued operating their legacy systems, and they have been extremely inexpensive to replace with newer technology. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 119 AACSB: Use of IT CASE: Comprehension 6) A mainframe is a type of legacy workstation. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 119 AACSB: Reflective Thinking CASE: Comprehension 7) Client/server computing is the most widely used form of centralized processing. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 120 AACSB: Reflective Thinking CASE: Comprehension 8) In two-tiered client/server architecture, the processing is...
Words: 5111 - Pages: 21
...Enterprise Resource Planning Software Of The Cloud Information Technology Essay Introduction ERP on the Cloud is based on Enterprise Resource Planning software and the cloud computing platform, two technologies that have increased in popularity over the last few years. ERP refers to a business management system that comprises integrated sets of comprehensive software that can manage and integrate all the business functions within an 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...
Words: 7153 - Pages: 29
