Essays on Cloud Computing

INTRODUCTION

One of the most fascinating aspects of cloud computing is the autonomy it offers. Though it has been with us, not for long, it is undisputable it has proven to be a vital commercial and SME success catalyst and hopefully will continue for the next decades. Clouds are of interest not only with expanding tendency to outsource IT to cut on management overheads but also to widen existing limited IT infrastructures. Even more notably, they reduce the entrance barrier for new players to deliver their respective goods and services to a wider market with minimal entry and exit costs Continue reading...

Question 1: Importance of Cloud Computing for Smart Cities

The utilization of cloud computing to achieve Dubuque’s vision of becoming a smart city is an essential move to achieve such goal. Cloud computing and internet technology has become a major propeller in providing on-demand resources required by cities like Dubuque that made it mature and pervasive. Several applications today that are widely used especially in smart cities are already cloud-based thus if Dubuque has visions of becoming a smart city it has to go with the trend. Aside from these, the utilization of cloud computing can provide leverage of information across the city’s agencies to come Continue reading...

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a recent concept and a new development that enables on-demand and convenient network access to several configurable computing resources such as; servers, applications, networks, services, applications and storage. It provides data access, computation, software, and storage services that do not necessitate knowledge of the configuration and physical system of the system by the user. Cloud computing can also be defined as the set of networks, hardware, services, interfaces, and storage that are combined to convey services that involve computing. Notably, there are four fundamental characteristics in cloud computing; automatic deprovisioning and self-service provisioning, elasticity and the Continue reading...

Introduction

There is a lot of talk and debate about cloud computing technology from the time of Web 2.0. it is one of the technologies that has been lauded to be cost-saver. Although this is the case, there is still some laxity with the implementation of cloud computing by most companies. This is because there are still security issues and vulnerabilities that are associated with cloud computing. Cloud computing is vulnerable to attacks just like any other technology. Most companies prefer to secure their resources and assets than let them reside in the cloud (Latif, Abbas, Assar, & Ali, 2014).

Cloud vulnerabilities and threats

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Today many talk about how cloud computing is changing the way we view the world. New technologies that simplify our lives, increase operational efficiency, reduce costs and eliminate the headaches are constantly emerging. In fact, today we have so many of them, so it becomes increasingly difficult to keep abreast of them and select the most helpful for themselves.
According to Winter, Raynolds, and Kiss (2014) cloud computing can be defined as a model that provides ubiquitous and convenient network access on demand to the common pool of configurable computing resources (for instance, data networks, servers, data storage devices, Continue reading...

Abstract

The Cloud and Grid computation systems are different computation services or platforms that can help in different tasks. Cloud computing started in late 1990s. It is the form of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) based on advanced development and integration of computer technologies such as huge memory, fast microprocessor, reliable system architecture, and high-speed network. Cloud computing are helpful in solving Internet-level computation problems, which are somewhat different from those of Grid computing. On the other hand, Grids started working in the mid 1990s to compute the large-scale problems with the help of network based resource-sharing commodity machines. Such Continue reading...

Cloud Computing and Organization Issues

Cloud computing is a new data storage technology that has created quite a stir in recent times in the distributed computing community. It is the concept of connecting large groups of remote servers through network which enables a centralized data base and accessibility of different computer resources. Small and large organizations have taken a fancy to this new development as it saves a lot of time of installation and maintenance of their computer architecture but there are various issues associated with cloud computing that aren’t fully known by people or are largely ignored. These issues need to be Continue reading...

Technology has revolutionized how businesses carry out their operations. This has led to the development of online based platforms that have helped to decentralize resources in order to meet the growing demand and adoption in the use of innovative business solutions. Cloud computing is one such innovative solution that most companies have adopted to enable them scale their operations.
Cloud computing is a technology that uses large scale computing paradigms, which presents applications in abstract forms and at the same time allow for virtualization and dynamicity in order to support scalability in order to allow external customers adjust as Continue reading...

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Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) are the most popular database systems today. The relational model of database management emerged from a dynamic database model called DataBase Management System (DBMS). Dbase and FoxPro were the popular DBMS in the 1970’s and 1980’s. RDBMS emerged in the 1990’s. Though RDBMS is a popular form of database management, few appreciate its true potential. Modern applications that allow multiple devices to access and manipulate data are overshadowing RDBMS. NoSQL models such as Hadoop and MapReduce allow document processing which is a feature that the relational model lacks. An in-depth understanding Continue reading...

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There is a buzz word called ‘Cloud’ where instead of your software, hardware or platform sits inside your company’s network or server or even your personal computer, other companies will provide you all of these as services, giving you access through the Internet. In whatever manner this software, hardware and platform is set-up, maintained and protected does not matter as long as you can perform your work seamlessly every day. The technological world refers to this set-up as the cloud computing. Gartner defined cloud computing as “a style of computing where Continue reading...

Introduction

Kodak as brand has acquired legendary status, it has been the part of everybody’s life for so many years globally and the unbelievable journey that Eastman Kodak has travelled is aptly and image of achieving success, sustaining the success and also, the story of fall that began with the inability to move with the times and trends.
The launch of Kodak as a company created a sensation and changed the face of the business in terms of creating a new a very profitable industry that will grow and grow with the subsequent launch of numerous products and services.
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Abstract

This research paper will delve into the world of cloud computing. It provides a discussion on what cloud computing is how it works. Its origin will also be looked at to help understand why cloud computing is what is it today. The uses of cloud computing across different users will also be examined as well as its advantages and disadvantages and other issues that surrounds cloud computing technology. Particularly, the cost-effectiveness of its use will b discussed as well as security issues relevant to the use of the technology. This research paper will inform readers on everything they will Continue reading...

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Cloud Computing is a service offered by Amazon that requires zero infrastructure cost and no startup cost. Currently cloud computing is talk of the town and very debatable topic. With the help of cloud computing, companies are able to build, operate and improve by offering cost benefit technique. Cloud computing provide shared storage and compute the data available. Further benefits that can be availed from cloud computing service by amazon are automation, auto-scaling, proactive scaling, improved testability, overflow and disaster recovery, business continuity and development lifecycle. These services that have offered Continue reading...

Nowadays, information and technology is evolving rapidly, as the time passes. New technologies are evolving and we need to make it possible to deliver this computing technologies everywhere in the world. Such high tech technologies as: Internet, open source software, parallel computing and server virtualization are regarded as possibility for computer resources delivery. The term “cloud computing” is used to describe the relationship among these technologies. The term cloud computing has a lots of definitions, but there is no exact one, as new technologies emerge with old one, forming this cloud.
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President, Katen Mills, Inc
Electronic storage industry
This memorandum presents to you some sustaining innovations and disruptive innovations that have affected the electronic storage manufacturing industry for the past 10 years. Sustaining innovations that has helped the industry are the creation of Nanotechnology that enabled the production of storage devices that are smaller but with bigger capacities. On the other hand, the industry has also been affected the presence of the cloud computing technology.
Nanotechnology is an emerging technology that is focused on designing and producing systems on a molecular scale. It is considered a sustaining innovation in several Continue reading...

Abstract

This discussion explains how through cloud computing, the process of data mining is facilitated. Through data mining, information that is potentially useful can be retrieved from raw data. People often face the need for targeted advertising, whereby data mining techniques give businesses greater efficiency, hence helping to lower costs. In the sector of cloud computing, data mining has become of great importance. The facilitation of data mining through cloud computing will enable users to obtain useful information viaa virtual warehouse of integrated data, helping to lower expenses of storage, technical staff, and purchase of infrastructure.
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Introduction (write small paragraphs on each point)

- How data centers’ requirement for electricity has increased?
- Provide a brief analysis of energy consumption patterns between various public and private cloud devices. (Use data from the 5th annotated biography source)
- How is this affecting our environment?
- Explain how cloud computing can ensure energy-efficient computing power of computers. (Use data from the 5th annotated biography source).
- There is a dire need to construct energy solutions for data centers and that energy efficiency for cloud computing is essential. (Thesis Statement).

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Anton B., Jemal A., Rajkumar B., Energy-aware resource allocation heuristics for efficient management of data centers for Cloud computing, Future Generation Computer Systems Volume 28, Issue 5, May 2012, pp 755–768.
The paper defines an architectural framework and principles that would enable energy-efficient implementation of cloud computing services. It examines resource allocation and provisioning algorithms that could be used in an energy-efficient cloud computing environment. It uses the CloudSim toolkit to validate the approach used to perform the evaluation study for the algorithms. It is a relevant paper for research in power saving when running data centers.
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Benefits of Cloud Computing

Lower Upfront costs — Enterprises can use unique services with the help from large-scale computing resources provided by the cloud service providers paying only for actual usage. No software or hardware installation done or the need for maintenance. The low barrier of entry and the pay-as-you-use model offered by cloud computing makes it very versatile (Merrill & Kang, 2014).
Lower IT operational costs — Server space can be rented out during peak hours without the need to maintain extra servers or human resources to maintain it. There is also the flexibility to host virtual IT infrastructure offering the lowest cost.
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According to the author of the book, Introduction to Digital Literacy, Mr. Bowles, illustrates that future of cloud computing lies not in the advent of new software and hardware, but, in the form of data storage and ease of accessing the data and files. He has explained in detail the emerging trends of artificial intelligence, computing and storage.
We have already witnessed the power of the Smartphones, i.e., iPhone and Android which actually changed the concept of accessing internet connectivity and storing of data,files,music,photographs and to be precise, everything by the netizens of the world.Tablet computing  Continue reading...

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is an advancement of the initial World Wide Web (WWW) that only facilitated the viewing of web pages in static pages using the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) protocol. Subsequent to multiple improvements, Web 2.0 was launched and web pages quickly shifted in performance from the previous static forms and transformed into dynamic second generation form.
Under Web 2.0, users of the web are capable of collaboratively sharing information and content. As a result, web users engage in open communication and with the potential of forming web-based communities (Sankar & Bouchard, 2011). Good examples of sites that heavily Continue reading...

The concept of cloud computing has tremendous advantages for organizations of the future. Organizations can use cloud computing to save cost and time that are usually involved in the implementation and development of the traditional software. It has been observed that leading organizations spend a substantial amount of time on the upgradation and maintenance of the traditional software that adds to the cost of the organization. The IT department usually spends the majority of the time in the planning and the implementation of software so as to improve the operational efficiency of the organization. However, the role of IT Continue reading...

Mod3Case Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling.

Capacity evaluation is essentially an all-inclusive investigation into a given utility to determine the capacity of the evaluated to function in any required circumstances. A company needs computer capacity evaluation when its computing power has been transferred to cloud-based systems so as to help the company management understand what is needed of them, it involves determining the needs of the company, both current and future. As part of moving to a cloud-based computing environment, the company uses evaluation, planning processes and tools so as to improve speed to system deployment, achieve cost reductions and improve systems availability. These tools Continue reading...

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Pareto Principle

One of the major concerns of the economics is the efficiency in resource allocation. Vilfredo Pareto came up with one of the most popular definitions of efficiency, applied in the business environment until today. The author of the Pareto Principle suggests that at some point it becomes impossible to improve the activities of one economic player, without negatively affecting the position of other actors in the market. In other words, the win of one firm will inevitably mean the loss of the other (Laudon and Traver, 2011). Pareto principles often relate to the production process, where it Continue reading...

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- Describe how data is transformed into information and how information is transformed into knowledge. Provide examples of how software supports these transformations
Data is raw subject fed into a computer by a user. Data is transformed into information through message coding. The computer codes the information fed and translates it into useful data. For example, information about a person is made up of single data such as sex, age, address, and occupation. Information is transformed into knowledge through the coding process. Installed programs in a computer are used transform information into knowledge. Software supports transformations through effective Continue reading...

Business technology has transformed how the business world operates with many business enterprise approaching the role played by technology.Technology has had a positive impact with many businesses now thriving on the use of technology rather than the traditional means of business operations. Business success is now being determined by how well a business adopts and integrate technology in its operations starting from the top level management to the senior most employees.Competition is now based in technology with companies adopting the use of technology in almost all areas of operation.
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Cloud computing is undoubtedly the best technological advancement of the 21st century. Clouds offer a range of capabilities for small and large enterprises such as the flexibility to enter and exit, scalability, cost-savings among others. However, maintaining security of data in the clouds proves to be a hard task. Cloud computing poses significant challenges to the privacy of personal as well as corporate and government data. With the advancement and increase in the adoption of cloud computing, data security becomes more and more weighty. This paper attempts to analyse ways of maintaining data security in the clouds.
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Gmail is an email service that is provided by mogul company Google well known for its browser services Google provides several internet services in cloud computing that include; Google Calendar, Google App Engine, Google Docs, Google Cloud Storage, and Gmail among others. Foremost, the choice for Gmail as a mailing service for an institution such as a university presents several security advantages. Gmail employs user passwords to ensure the security of user accounts. The passwords are integrated into the browser information that is stored in the programs files of the primary disk C of the computer. What is more Continue reading...

Cloud storage has already become a new standard for storing and sharing files. Nowadays you can access your files at any time, from wherever you are. These trendy services have a lot of indisputable advantages: flexibility, security, sharing, cross-platform.
FilesAnywhere, which has been offering online data storage for already 15 years, is one of the most popular cloud servicesavailable. In order to start using the cloud, you have to sign up. It’s free and won’t take long. The registration form has half a dozen simple fields to fill in plus a checkbox to sign up for a Continue reading...

A software application used for the purpose of supervision, record keeping, tracing, broadcasting and delivery in education programs is known as Learning Management System (LMS). LMS products and software are known to improve the electronic assignments, deliver it with an exceptional scope and flexibility that can be used for a longer duration. Most of the LMS are web-based that are built on Java, or a server side scripting tool PHP (PHP: Hypertext Processor) and uses SQL as a database. LMS provides a number of useful features such as communication between students using forums, emails and instant messaging, more activities Continue reading...

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INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing has presented new challenges and opportunities to industry IT. Cloud computing can be defined as a set of resources and services offered through the internet. The cloud services are provided from data centers located all over the world. Cloud service providers facilitate its consumers by providing virtual resources via the internet. An example of such a service is Google Apps provided by Google and Microsoft SharePoint.
Cloud computing has been termed as a game-changer in scientific and industrial communities. It is increasingly infiltrating into industrial systems, businesses, government organizations, private entities and learning Continue reading...

Technology

Introduction
Cloud computing denotes a pattern modification to overall information technology resolutions even thoughhovering the user-friendliness, scalability and efficacyover its empoweringtools. Conversely, transferred cloud boards and amenities cost benefits as well as enactments are often times a bit obscure and rarelyconcise. The economic processes along with the in slump economic periods have not only elevated the bar of animproved information technologicalsupplyprototypes but have provided mereright of entry to toolssupportedamenities via web sphere.
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Capacity planning is a very common activity done by several IT organizations. It is done to manage the performance of the systems is by ensuring that the system offers the best services to the users. System administrators normally restore the system functionality whenever there is a problem. It is good for the system administrator to plan in advance for such issues to avoid performance bottlenecks. Capacity building tools can be used to forecast in advance to plan how severs will be organized to handle the workload. The main aim of capacity panning is to ensure that quality services are Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

As organizational needs expand beyond current limits, companies seek flexible, cost-effective, and proven ways of providing their services without compromising security. Cloud computing present businesses and companies a massive chance for growth and efficient consumer IT service delivery over the internet. However, the added level of risk culminating from a combination of various technologies results in security and privacy issues. This paper is going to explore the main vulnerabilities and threats highlighted in Cloud Computing literature as the basis of developing counter applications.

Introduction

Cloud computing is considered a game-changer in scientific and industrial communities. It is increasingly infiltrating into Continue reading...

In its widest usage, Cloud Computing is the delivery of scalable information technology over the Internet as opposed to operating and hosting those resources locally such as university or college network. As an alternative of keeping data on a hard drive or application updates needed, cloud computing is a convenient service over the Internet at another location to store information or use its application. It allows individuals to use software and hardware managed by third parties at remote places. There are many services in cloud computing such as online file storage, webmail, computer processing power, online business or specialized Continue reading...

Cloud computing encompasses different computing technologies which enable the users to access and use advanced computing capabilities at small charges. Actually it is the state of the art utility computing. Includes virtual servers, platform-as-a-service, software-as-a service and hardware as a service. Cloud computing can be understood better when we focus on daily computing or information technology requirements. An example of such service is ensuring adequate computing capability without purchasing new information technology infrastructure such as hardware, software or servers. Most cloud computing services require the user to subscribe in order to access the services. The cloud computing comes for Continue reading...

Ethical considerations

The features of cloud computing as discussed previously have given rise to several ethical issues with regard to cloud computing. This section will discuss some of the ethical issues specifically associated with cloud computing.

In essence the cloud computing amounts to three developments;

- Transfer of control from technology users to third parties servicing the cloud due to outsourcing and offshoring of ICT functionality to the cloud .
- Data storage in multiple physical locations across several servers across the world owned, managed and administered by different organizations.
- The multiple service interconnection across the cloud. At the different levels functionality and service is provided by the different providers Continue reading...

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing can be simply described generally to be an expression which is used to describe a variety of computing concepts that consists of huge numbers of computers that are connected to one another via a real-time communication network example of which is the Internet. Cloud computing is the next stage in the evolution of the internet, it provides the means through which applications, business processes, computing infrastructures, personal collaborations, computing power etc can be delivered as a service whenever it is needed and wherever it is needed. Relative to cloud computing, the word “cloud” in itself can be Continue reading...

1. Define cloud computing and identify the business benefits of cloud computing
The term cloud computing has its basis on cloud drawings that were utilized in the past when representing telephone networks. Cloud computing can be described as internet based computing whereby servers which are virtually shared offer infrastructure, software, devices, platform, other resources as well as hosting to customers on the basis of pay-as-you-use. In the cloud computing model, all information is offered as a service. This means that users are able to access available services on the internet cloud with no need of possessing prior knowledge on Continue reading...

Communication Plan

Communication Plan

A Energy Company’s lack of innovation is a deficiency that carries a significant impact on its information technology infrastructure. The lack of innovation is attributed to the consistent changes in technology and results into network performance challenges. The company’s deficiency in innovation is a weakness capable of causing its collapse. A Energy must strive to cope with technology changes through an efficient system assessment program, and the reduction of infrastructure-related costs. The company also needs to develop a network system that will speed its operations in light of its expansion.
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