Ericsson and Cloud Computing Info System Decision Making 08/26/2012 As the world’s leading provider of technology and services to mobile and fixed network operators, Ericcson is one of the few companies worldwide that can offer communication standards suitable for all major mobile standards. With reported second quarter net sales of 8.1 billion, Ericsson is a key driver in standardizing organizations and holds various leadership and influential positions on boards such as the Association
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Amazon uses to run it own global network of web sites. The S3 can read, write, and delete information containing 1 byte to 5 terabytes, storage is unlimited. It has a unique, developer-assigned key in order to retrieve assigned objects. • Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) provides
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Abstract Cloud computing is defined by Cearly and Phifer in their case study titled “Case Studies in Cloud Computing” as “a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided ‘ as a service’ to customers using Internet technologies”. Cloud computing services had been provided by major vendors such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others for business computing until recently when Apple Corporation announced iCloud for consumers. Therefore
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Amazon Evolution BIS 219 June 24, 2012 Ursula B. Woodruff Being the global leader, Amazon.com is at the top of the ranks in e-commerce. This organization has not only enlarged its international websites, but had expanded their network worldwide of customer service and fulfillment service center (Amazon.com, 2009). Amazon.com was established in 1995 and has expanded into an international Fortune 500 cooperation with distribution locations in France, Germany, Japan, China, Canada, and the United
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information technology industry. They are focusing on a few key areas in which to compete, mostly in terms of computing and storage. Amazon.com has developed several new programs that are available to other businesses, Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic
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countries, more than 90,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 203.3 billion (USD 28.2 billion) in 2010. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York. Ericsson uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and RightScale for provisioning and auto-scale functionality. They host in multiple AWS locations with failover between installations, partly based on RightScale features. Ericsson
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Amazon and Jeffrey P. Bezos’s concept of e-business and the benefits it provide effectively in adopting e-supply chain strategies. Bezos’ wants Amazon to deal with the technical and logistics using the same method which he implemented within his own company at one time (Cravens & Piercy, 2013). The technology is now able to play a vital role in expansion of new business areas as well as enabling organizations in minimizing its cost and work in a more precise and effective manner. Amazon offers
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case study, Ericsson chose AWS because they felt it was “the most integrated public cloud provider in the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform (Rightscale)”. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and RightScale Amazon EC2 The AWS website describes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, making web-scale computing easier for developers. It also allows you to quickly scale capacity up and down if and when your computing requirements change
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(Rightscale, 2012). The Ericsson team mentions that “having hosting centers in various regions was important for them. AWS also showed a better quality of service with solid management and a proven track record.” (Amazon Web Services, 2012). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides a fully structured environment, memory, a processor, and out of the box configured software. It provides great quality within minutes on a “pay-as-you-go” (Amazon EC2, 2012). Moreover, it decreases the time required to gain
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Amazon’s and Google’s Cloud Services Compared Zakaria Abuzeid Machemia McGregor Bernard Murrell Lisa Thomas Casaundra Woolridge Keller School Of Management Managerial Applications of Information Technology Instructor: Marlyn Kingsley November 30, 2011 Overview “When you care enough to send the very best” is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Hallmark brand. Hallmark Cards, Inc. has remained the Goliath of the greeting card industry. Hallmark’s products also
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