Research Report Cloud Computing Technology Investment Recommendation Assessment Code: RWT1 Student Name: Amanda Mertes Student ID: 239082 Date: October 6, 2014 Mentor Name: Danielle Northern Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Research Findings………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Cloud Computing Services...…………………………………………………………………………….5 Security in the Cloud……………………………………………………………………………………
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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
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GS1145 09/28/11 The Future of Cloud Computing Cloud computing has been around for awhile now but just recently the term has changed into something much deeper. Instead of physical software there is now software made available on the internet. An example of software on the internet can be Google docs. Not just that, any human with internet capabilities can play games through servers in the cloud without needing a high end graphics card. It’s kind of like or almost identical to remote programs
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Professor Danner ISYS 263 October 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
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Cloud Computing Adam Hoster Columbia Southern University In the past, most businesses and organizations have kept all of their own computing hardware at their location and doled out a significant amount of money as well as effort in maintenance and development. After around 2010 most companies moved this infrastructure to the cloud which is “The elastic leasing of pooled computer recourses over the internet. The term “cloud” us used because most early diagrams
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there is a silver lining to this cloud. Studies say that security, regulatory and privacy concerns might get in the way of cloud computing in the healthcare industry, although this sector is set to grow in the medium term. Cloud computing in healthcare is projected to grow to US$ 5.4 billion by 2017. Modernization in the healthcare system is going beyond Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR). According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the use of cloud computing in healthcare will span both clinical
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Cloud Computing Abstract: In this fast computerized world, cloud computing is one of the emerging technology in today's life and plays a major key role in changing the aspects of the computer world as many organizations have started using it from day to day life. The main purpose of "The Cloud" is what kind of models/architectures it offers for research and development in this digital world. Cloud computing primarily focuses on sharing data over a scalable network. The network includes data
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infrastructure that provided the ability to quickly scale up to handle a high volume of traffic and that would also serve a global audience with high performance, Volvo chose to implement a cloud-based solution. After surveying the background of cloud services providers, LBi recommended that Volvo use Windows Azure cloud computing which offers software
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Cloud computing can offer small businesses significant cost-saving benefits namely, pay-as-you-go access to sophisticated software and powerful hardware while at the same time offering a host of other advantages 1. Fully utilized hardware Cloud computing brings natural economies of scale. Your workloads will share server infrastructure with other organizations' computing needs. This allows the cloud-computing provider to optimize the hardware needs of its data centers, which means lower costs for
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Personal cloud computing means having every piece of data you need for every aspect of your life at your fingertips and ready for use. Data must be mobile, transferable, and instantly accessible. The key to enabling the portable and interactive you is the ability to sync up your data among your devices as well as access to shared data (Tadjer, 2010). Any type of organization would benefit from cloud computing – large or small. With the current technology advances, for startups and technology
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