Essays on Cloud

Introduction

Cloud Computing is the description given to a variety of different computing concepts involving a large number of computers interconnected via real-time communication networks like the internet. Cloud Computing is a terminology that lacks a universal technical or scientific definition. The term is a synonym for distributed computing through a network. It provides the capability to run a program on several interconnected computers simultaneously. Cloud Computing also refers to services that are network based. The networked based services are served by virtual hardware that is simulated by software running on a few of the machines. Cloud Computing depends on Continue reading...

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Vendors Offering IaaS Public Cloud Services

The description of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is straightforward. Cloud infrastructure such as storage, servers and networks are available on rent in a pay-as-you-use model. There are many players in this field of public cloud services and below is a classification and comparison of the three most dominant leaders of the industry in IaaS.

IBM SmartCloud

IBM provides cloud computing services called Blue Cloud that presents tools over IBM Cloud to manage large scale applications and database. IBM also offers consulting services to assimilate infrastructure into the cloud. Continue reading...

The Future of Cloud Computing

Introduction
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing applies to the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing (Rad, et al., 2009). Cloud computing refers both to a platform and a type of application (Buyya, Yeo, Venugoplas, Broberg, & Brandic 2009). Cloud computing platforms provide the services necessary for developers to create new SaaS applications; it is a dynamic process that provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers. Cloud platforms provide a pool of resources to host different applications where computing power is delivered on demand (Van, Tran, & Menaud, 2009). Cloud applications use large databases and powerful servers that host Internet-based applications 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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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...

Disseminating Organizational IT Security and Troubleshooting Best Practices

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Memo: Action Plan
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The strategy to improve security of the company’s IT infrastructure in response to a recent series of enterprise network systems breaches is a multi-level plan for controlling risk to data and operations. The deployment of the IT user authentication plan will ensure that designated user access to the network is effective enough to sustain future security breaches; and including threats posed by social engineering. The Action Plan outlines the : 1) wireless encryption; and 2) designated user credential process, as well as cloud data storage and the company’s contingency Continue reading...

Introduction

Cloud computing is a new technological model that’s transforming the world of computing (Jin et al. 2010). In this model, computation and data are operated in a cloud, which is a collection of data centers that a third party owns and maintains.

Cloud computing refers to the applications, systems, software, and hardware that are “delivered as services over the Internet” (Jin et al. 2010, p. 3).

Brief History of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing isn’t exactly a new concept. Existing structures such as adaptive computing, utility computing, and grid computing have paved the way for cloud computing (Molen 2010). ASP (application service providing) 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...

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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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...

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Red Cloud or Mahpiya Luta is a famous and strong Native American leader in American history. Red Cloud is well known for his capabilities and strengths shown during Red Cloud’s War and various other important events. Red Cloud was principle chief of Sioux’s largest band Oglala Teton, Lakota, and was among one of the most powerful chiefs of American tribal history. Red cloud leads the band from 1866 to 1909. Red cloud leads American army to fight another war after the civil war, and gave tough challenges to the American army. Red cloud depicted great leadership qualities 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...

Breaking News and World Events

1 Introduction

IT has grown to become one of the vital organs of any organization. With growing markets and competition, organizations are hard pressed to optimally utilize their IT budgets while gaining maximum benefit at the same time. This applies all the more to organizations whose main business is IT itself. Such organizations need constant analyzing and fine tuning of their IT as this affects their business directly. The emergence of cloud-based computing has proved to be a God-send for organizations aiming to optimize efficiencies and minimize costs along with high scalability of resources to meet fluctuating mission-critical needs . 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...

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...

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The Problem

Cloud Network security is very significant when it comes to online data and transactions. Attackers often examine vulnerabilities within the cloud system. There are malwares and viruses that can be easily detected and those that cannot be detected easily. With advance technology and increase in computing knowledge, network attackers use sophisticated software that can beat most antiviruses and firewalls hence accessing the system without anyone noticing them (Kumar, 2015). Malicious code also referred to as (malware) often grow larger with Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and cloud computing are beneficial to organizations both profit based organization and non-profit organizations. However, there are challenges and risks that arise from ERP and cloud computing. This research will investigate the challenges, risks and the level associated with the adoption of cloud ERP systems. The research will aim at finding out the challenges and risks associated with the adoption of cloud ERP systems. The research questions will aim at addressing the challenges and risks as well as the level of the risks associated with adoption of cloud ERP systems. An exploratory and descriptive research 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.
Data storage is a key area where technology has played Continue reading...

Describe the hardware, software and network architectural design of the infrastructure used to build cloud computing infrastructures.

Cloud computing is a computing model that depends on sharing computing resources as opposed to having local servers handling applications. Cloud computing involves delivering services that have been hosted over the internet. Such services can be classified into three main categories:
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
The following is the architectural design of a cloud computing infrastructure. It involves software and hardware designed by a particular cloud architect. Cloud computing involves a large number of cloud components communicating with each other over various application programming interfaces (APIs), usually as web services. The cloud computing architectural Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper seeks to examine the emerging technologies that are being adopted by tech firms in the need to go green. Companies such as Facebook and Google have come up with initiatives through which they have reduced the amount of energy that the companies use. The policies adopted by Facebook and Google have had a very impactful influence on most small businesses globally (like and ). and are cloud computing service providers with a large number of servers that need to be energy efficient. Therefore, green technology is important when it comes to ensuring that tech companies are energy efficient. Continue reading...

The Future of Cloud Computing

Introduction
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing applies to the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing (Rad, et al., 2009). Cloud computing refers both to a platform and a type of application (Buyya, Yeo, Venugoplas, Broberg, & Brandic 2009). Cloud computing platforms provide the services necessary for developers to create new SaaS applications; it is a dynamic process that provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers. Cloud platforms provide a pool of resources to host different applications where computing power is delivered on demand (Van, Tran, & Menaud, 2009). Cloud applications use large databases and powerful servers that host Internet-based applications Continue reading...

Introduction

Cloud computing is a technology where data and different applications are stored on storage networks and servers which are located in a remote place and accessed by the users via the Internet. In cloud computing case, it is On-Demand basis where consumers pay a subscription fee for the service. The use of this technology increases efficiency because the storage, memory and processing are centralized. This technology involves sending services which have been hosted through the Internet. Cloud computing would be useless without the technologies like Web 2.0, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). These technologies have made cloud computing Continue reading...

Introduction

The field of engineering faces continuous change by the day. For a long time, these changes have been necessitated by varying needs of the society. At times, the needs could revolve around the need or efficiency, safety, easing the standard of living, or simply arising as a result of scarce resources. These changes have seen the society moving from traditional methods of doing things to a more modern approach. An example can be witnessed in the developments in the manufacturing engineering field. The developments and changes in the manufacturing have necessitated for the inception of efficient methods of producing Continue reading...

Amazon Web Services provided for by Amazon was an original idea that was aimed at providing IT services on the web. This was boosted by the fact that high initial installation and maintenance costs required to set up a competent IT department was a challenge to many companies. Ericson, an international company that provides mobile services are one of the companies that has embraced cloud computing. It attributes its interest in technology to its cost-effectiveness, application of updated software, remote access services and the on-demand aspect of cloud computing.
Being an integrated public cloud, AWS allows for access to 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.
The company seeks to employ Continue reading...

Introduction

The world is rapidly transforming due to technological advancements and the business environment has not been left behind. The information technology world is rapidly advancing and it is vital that business adopt new technologies so as to experience the potential benefits. Cloud computing is a category of internet based computing, founded on the concept of sharing computer resources whereby different computer services such as applications, servers and storage are delivered to an organization’s devices and computers via the internet rather than having personal devices handling applications. Web 2.0 on the other hand refers to advanced internet applications and Continue reading...

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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THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CLOUD COMPUTING.

Introduction
Cloud computing is the use of software and hardware that are delivered as a service over a network which entrusts remote services with a users data, software and computation.

Advantages

Cloud based services offer benefits to businesses by providing highly scalable data solutions, with these data solutions the infrastructure cost is reduced while the revenues are increased also by globalizing the network infrastructure it makes business processes locations independent this delivers accessibility and flexibility hence recourses are leveraged to optimal levels. Virtual desktops and applications recourses are scaled up in a dynamic way and companies can create an IT 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...

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...

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...

Introduction
Cloud Computing has evolved as one of the most talked about and cost savvy It architecture, the best part is that it allows to use the computing resources as services and is easily accessible via the Internet. The computing services that are provided my involve hardware such as the (processor, memory and storage) and also software applications. “Cloud” is the word given to the connectivity created between the various Hardware and Software applications, which are connected to a server that provides the computing resources and may or may not be present in the premises of a company as Continue reading...

The key concepts used to describe the subject

Human clouding a unique strategic approaches embraced by organizations as they seek to attract and retain virtual on-demand workforce to supplement their production. The essentiality and opportunities encompassed in this initiative requires a closer scrutiny based on the challenges cropping up on the ability to manage it. Some of the essential concepts proffered in the analysis include; human cloud, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, microsourcing and types of human cloud platforms.
Human cloud is entailed as the third-generation sourcing strategy after IT outsourcing and offshore outsourcing. Integrates an ecosystem where the online middleman engage wide range pool of virtual workers tapped by Continue reading...

Is Cloud Computing a better Platform for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?"

The term ‘cloud computing’ has different meanings to different people. A unique trait of cloud computing is its valuable computing resources organized and stored in a central location for easy access by approved users (Gillam, 2010). Sharing of computing resources by intended users and the public requires experts to set appropriate measures to safeguard data. Cloud computing relies on secure data management to achieve its objectives. It is worth noting that cloud computing practices have enhanced business performance across industries. Despite its valuable to business entities, the process faces various challenges among them security threats, reliability, and consistency. This Continue reading...

The technology that I have selected for this paper will be that of cloud computing. The utilization of cloud computing in associations helps in the entrance of data, for example, client information, remedy, and earlier analysis. As indicated by Augusto, Huch, and Kameas (2012), cloud computing has basically enhanced the registering environment of a few associations and subsequently expanded proficiency. This is on account of the whole buzz around there of cloud about-faces to centralization. The way data and information are put away in association has additionally changed. The cloud computing realized cloud storage. Cloud storage is the place 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...

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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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...

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...