Essays on Cloud

1.0 Introduction Effective communication is important for every organization to achieve organizational goals (Jones 2007). Communication basically refers to transmission of meaning and information from group or individual (Guffey, Rogin and Rhodes 2009). 2.0 Forms of business communication at Sport ‘n’ Leisure At Sports ‘n’ Leisure both the two forms of communication are used. To communicate internally, an open door policy is used, i.e., employee- employer communication, discussion and feedback takes place openly which encourages employees to provide suggestions and promote ideas so that business could be improved (Heathfield 2015). In addition, the use of informal approach encourages employees ...

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The energy consumption in the high performance computing and cloud services is enormous. This requires energy efficiency techniques to reduce power consumption in operation and cooling of the data servers and high performance computers. To search for more energy efficient techniques to save power, companies across the world share data and conduct survey. This article gives an overview of requirement of energy efficiency, different energy efficiency algorithms for supercomputers, cooling and energy efficiency techniques used across the globe.

Introduction

There are multiple sources for energy consumption in high performance computing such as power consumption in running High Performance Computing (HPC), ...

Telecommuting is one of the fastest growing labor trends today. According to observers, many companies are planning to offer telecommuting as they see its many benefits, especially in terms of productivity. And since telecommuting refers to virtually commuting through the use of wired and wireless technologies, the benefits of telecommuting is not only confined between the company and the individual, but also for the environment as well (Cross, 2015, p.2). Just imagine the energy that can be saved from not using a car in going to work because one can do it in the comforts of his own home. ...

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Marketing & Public Relations Communications Manager Job responsibilities The Marketing and Public Relations Communications Manager is a full-time job within the company’s global marketing team. The job is based in New York City, requires managing marketing duties, social media and press related activities for the company. The role also requires product based communication for the target audience and the PR activities that face the industry. The job requires specific knowledge about software, IT or Internet industry and communication skills and experience, strategic thinking, analytical aptitude and awareness of U.S. media's curiosity with the IT industry, especially web marketing, online ...

The Cloud for Digital Photography

CONVENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: STORAGE & MANAGEMENT ISSUES The advent of photography in late 1830s (Roosa, n.d.) has mandated later introduction and development of memory storage methods. The capacity for cameras to preserve in photographs personal and collective memories has made permanency a more urgent issue as photographs became household collectibles. Moreover, as development methods improved, older photographs (developed using outdated methods) required more maintenance during storage, particularly photographs produced by acetate negatives, chromogenic color film, polyester film and instant color print processes (Roosa). The deterioration of photographs by poor environmental storage conditions, poor storage enclosures, inadequate handling and shelving conditions, and ...

Introduction

The existence of increasingly more cost-efficient and powerful technology has been a tremendous enhancement for small enterprises of all streaks. It has also translated to enterprise owners facing a necessity to sort through an incredible amount of technology options and seek the most improved ways to employ technology to attain business purposes. Entrepreneurs will have to encounter a series of business technology issues in the course of the ventures ranging from managing upgrades, applying the social media tools to conducting research. Practically, every enterprise is challenged with the risk of disintermediation by the internet. Virtually everything to do with ...

Introduction

Cloud computing, simply defined, is the replacement of all of the personal computers in the world with terminals that are deemed as being “dumb,” which do not have any kind of operating system of complicated software to handle. Alternatively, all such terminals connect to a World Wide Web wherein applications are located along with all the user data. However, this is the most extreme possibility as currently, cloud computing is incorporating itself as means for storing and accessing all sorts of data from a wide range of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, as well as desktops. ...

Cloud computing has emerged as the future of networking recently. It eliminates the need to stack up expensive hardware components to form a company’s private network or storage space. The advantages of using cloud computing are can be summed up into its 1. Elasticity 2. Provisions to pay as you go 3. Reduction of in-house infrastructure liabilities and costs . Cloud computing encompasses three major delivery models which are 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS). 3. Software as a Service (SaaS). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enables users to rent special networking hardware ...

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GPUs that stand for Graphics Processing Units (also called visual processing unit) are used for high-speed image creation in applications that require images or videos to be shown on screen. This is done by manipulating and altering of memory. A frame buffer that is intended for output to a display is used for the purpose of image creation. The most common devices that use Graphics Processing Units include cell phones; both smartphones and some common mobile phones, personal computers and laptops, workstations and game consoles. The newer versions of Graphics Processing Units are very effective, and they ...

Company profile

Hustream has been a game changer in the manner that businesses interact with their clients on the internet. Founded in 2008, Hustream runs a video production agency, which offers a wide range of interactive video solutions by blending web-based technology, video wizardry, and human psychology to improve engagement of the viewers. Rather than engaging in the creation of commercials, Hustream’s business is strictly tied to the development of conversations. By and large, Hustream aims to offer businesses with professional-tailored videos that have a heightened engagement with the audience, with a net result of increased revenues. Hustream’s clients ...

Technology

Big data The amount of data has been exploding. Organizations capture trillions bytes of relevant to their operations information, sensors, multimedia and individuals also generate enormous quantities of data. Big data is a set of data from both traditional as well as digital sources that can be used for continuous discovery and analysis. The data can contain unstructured and multi-structured data. Unstructured data is the data stored not in organized system, it cannot easily be interpreted by traditional databases or data models, and usually it consists of large amounts of text. The example of unstructured data is social media ...

“Biometrics” is a term used to refer to “life measurement.” Biometrics is a technology used for verifying authenticity (Stanoevska-Slabeva, 2011). It uses either behavioral features or biological traits to identify or recognize individuals. In actual sense, Biometric system translates to a system of pattern identification which makes use of various biological characteristics such as facial recognition, voice geometry, fingerprints hand recognition and patterns like retina designs and iris patterns (Saini, 2014). The recognition systems and models of biometrics allow for the verification possibility of people’s identity by only determining who they are and not what they might be ...

The dynamics of the business market are critical in shaping and defining the decision-making process of a business enterprise. The success of a company is based on its capacity to identify means and ways of taking advantage of the opportunities coming its way. This paper looks at the dynamics of outsourcing in a company and the advantages and challenges that arise from the practice of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be defined as the process of subcontracting some of the noncore services that a company provides or is involved in. Subcontracting frees up of time, personnel and facilities that can be ...

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Abstract The successful flight of an aircraft is often attributed to the finesse of its pilots as well as the dispatcher. It is a common practice in air crash investigations to put the blame of such a mishap on the shoulders of its pilots and the air traffic control unit. Most often, the other factors that are inclusive in any successful flight, is omitted. This paper tries to analyze these causes from the perspective of National Transport Safety Board, to generate an independent view about the crash of UPS Flight 1354. After thorough inspection of NTSB reports three main ...

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In the connection of distributed computing, the administration list is an indispensable and basic part of the distributed computing engineering. A cloud administration and mobile services include:

Contains an arrangement of cloud services that an end client can ask for (typically through a web self-service gateway);

Has a self-managed interface; that is, it gives the capacity to choose administration offerings from the cloud administration inventory and create administration solicitations to have cases of those offerings satisfied; Acts as the requesting entryway for cloud end clients, including estimating and benefit level duties and the terms and conditions for administration provisioning; Is helpful in creating suitable cloud-based arrangements, ...

Our solar system is a collection of some cosmic “neighbors” in space existing in a certain range. This extraordinary system of space bodies includes: a Sun, 8 planets with 140 moons, dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids. In the center of the Solar System, there is average in size and age, yellow star that people call it the Sun. Around it, for about five billion years, 8 planets and different celestial bodies have been circling in the eternal dance (Seasky.org. “The Solar System”). The size of the planets ranges from the small stone worlds to the giants consisting of ice ...

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Risks of using Internet as part of a Business Solution

Internet security concerns have clouded the performance of many e-commerce sites as well as various financial instruments based on web for very long. The biggest reason for such an annoying setback for Internet is the anonymity it is capable of providing the attacker. The perpetrators are hardly recognizable in the maze of ‘mirrors’ within mirrors and spoof IP addresses that are set up to hide the hosts of malwares, Trojans, worms, that cankers the utility of a web service. Any business providing services to clients via internet shall be open to a number web based security and ...

Microsoft’s Advertising Activities

The core purpose of advertising campaigns is to promote products or services with the purpose of influencing sells growth, but for succeeding in doing so, advertisers must know their target audience and customize the commercial message to fit their communication register (Hofeman and Bateson, 2010). For a company like Microsoft, which benefits of long – lasting worldwide presence through iconic hardware accessories and software programs, communication needed to adjust to different environments and social changes. This is why, there can be observed various trends in Microsoft’s advertising campaigns over the years. Nevertheless, an important aspect that contributes to its ...

Even though we are the creation of a nature, the humanity has found the way to control it. By trying to improve our life by creating of new facilities, breeding of new animals we are changing our mother nature. We are talking not only about organic nature, but even about making the rain or snow fall. The technique of cloud seeding allow people to create the snow or rain whenever they want only with the help of aircraft that spray the sky with particles of silver iodide. Clouds are one of the most unexplored aspect of our environment so ...

Project Proposal

Data Analysis and Analytics Research Information is considered to be the new form of currency in business. Information has become part of people’s everyday lives. We can see data everywhere. For instance, we can find them on our credit card or ATM card, our financial records, property documents, health data, or even in the internet. Data sharing connects us with each other and promotes globalization. The sharing of data can be advantageous to everyone because it provides a credit is directly attributed to the researcher whose research output allows the results of the research to be scrutinized, maximizing ...

Investigating the factors influencing Business Intelligence adoption: A case of Saudi Arabia

Literature Review Business intelligence Business Intelligence can be defined as a term that covers different themes including applications, tools, infrastructure, and best practices that are being used for data and information analysis (Lönnqvist&Pirttimäki, 2006). More specifically, in a BIsystem the data of operations are combined with the tools of analysis to present the complex data as the unique information set to the decision makers. It delivers critical information on the time of making decisions (Lloyd, 2011).

Factors influencing BI adaptation

Different studies have already been done about the factors that influence the adoption of business intelligence. The study has found some ...

COMMUNICATION ACCESS

Mobile computing has grown exponentially in the last few years due to several factors including the growth of service work in Western society and the need for co-operation between many parties in the work force . These factors require increased use of information technology and physical interaction thus leading to the need for mobile computing. Mobile computing devices are a common and it is more common than not to have internet access available on these devices via a wide variety of connection methods. This paper presents the different connection methods, how they work and gives examples of where the various ...

The American economy has recovered from the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and now there are very low levels of unemployment and inflation. As the result, the people and the companies feel confident and are willing to spend their money. The growth of the key market indexes proves that the American companies have been benefiting from the economic growth. In the past 5 years, NASDAQ index nearly doubled, Dow Jones Index increased by 75% and S&P500 increased by 68% (Yahoo Finance). Therefore, financial investment may be extremely profitable nowadays. Before making an investment, one should evaluate his or her own ...

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The Romantic era of writing is characterized by a number of reoccurring themes, one of which is the intermingling of man and nature. William Wordsworth, writing during this time, proved to be no exception to the rule. Two of his writings, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “Strange fits of passion have I known,” exemplify this particular theme, that of the individual experience, human emotions, and the relationship of man and nature. “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” is truly a classic from Wordsworth. He depicts a simple scenario of the poet out walking who stumbles across a ...

The integration of biometrics in modern security has become like a massive boost for information security. The process of recognition has become useful to security as there are various elements of recognition that biometrics use to match the live template and the stored template to give the desired return (Metheny 2013, p.71-102). Various features utilized in the biometrics are often extracted from the biometric modalities that come from the stored data about them. The degree of similarity is the found using when the data from the templates are properly authenticated.

Biometric recognition methods

Fingerprint recognition-It is considered as one of the oldest ...

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Management Information Systems

Microsoft Corporation is a company that deals with licensing, supporting, and improving a variety of software services and products. The products of Microsoft Corporation include applications for business solutions, tools for software development, online marketing, tools for management server applications, video games, and operating system for phones, servers, computing devices, and other intelligent devices. Furthermore, the company provides Cloud services that provide the consumers with services, software, and content in the Internet through shared computer resources, which can be located in the centralized data center. The company sells and engineer tablets, personal computer, phones, entertainment and ...

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Introduction

The company is considering another multinational company equal to its size for acquisition. The decision of the merging of the company with the other multinational brand has been taken by the company’s executive committee and shared with various stakeholders during the executive leadership meet. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) anticipates a project plan with regards to the Information Technology requirements within the next sixty days. The project plan must strategically integrate all the systems of the company with the multinational company. The merging systems must include ...

While the bulk collection of phone record has been over, its restoration is the most optimal decision since there are no software program adequately replacing the wiretapping system, which is what makes the solution so important minimizing the vulnerability of the United States. Of course, there are ethical concerns; however, a saved human life is the best argument to consider ethicality a conventionality avoided for a greater good. Financially, the country is on the winning side, as are its citizens. The economic weight and irreplaceability of the USA is unlikely to damage the finances due to wiretapping concerns. Wiretapping ...

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3) Mission, Vision, Statement of Values and Objectives: Suggestions to Improve. 9

Mission: Focus on R&D, Invest & Grow. 9

Strategic Mission, Strategic Posture and Spark NZ Performance 10 Strategic Mission, Organization Structure and Firm Performance of Spark NZ 10 Strategic Mission, Competitive Marketing Tactics, and Firm Performance 10 Vision 11 Hard Skills 11 Soft Skills 11 Statement of Values: Focus on Integrity, Community Citizenship, and Customer Service. 12 Objectives: Focus on Development of 4G, Telecommunication, Cloud Computing, IPTV Protocol and Acquisitions. 12 4) External Environmental Analysis and Internal Capability Evaluation. 14

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a) PESTEL Analysis: Threat-Cost of Mistake; Weakness-Reliance on Technology. 14 b) Five Forces: Differentiation ...

Introduction

Cloud platform is increasingly becoming popular even as most enterprises shift from a conventional computing system to this new data accessibility trend. Just as the name suggest, cloud computing allows for allows multiple users to access it simultaneously, and thus exposing it to the easier attack by unscrupulous users and unintended applications. Thus, the cloud computing environments are easier targets to intruders due to their distributed nature.

This is a typical Diagram of an IDSaaS in the Cloud

According to Shraddha, et al, (2015), using a genetic Algorithm is a fundamental intrusion detection system that could prevent a compromise to the data shared on the cloud computing networks. These authors ...

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Aim and Objectives

The creation of awareness in the networking skills has increased the interest of individuals on the need to obtain private information through phishing of passwords as well as the use virus and worms that are designed to replicate users. These methods have been used by advanced and well experienced programmers to infiltrate and obtain data that is always intended to be used maliciously. Recent research in data storage and privacy issues has revealed that the methods used to infiltrate systems have been used successfully and documented. This information has been ...

Soft Technologies

Wal-Mart thrives on scale and cost leadership, and it has not hesitated to deploy technology to further or protect its competitive advantages. The company has invested heavily in efficiency-creating information technology, and other technologies. Perhaps one of the areas where the company has long set the standards is the supply chain management, but Wal-Mart also has an enterprise resource planning systems, human resources management systems, customer relationship management systems, and point of sale (POS) systems, etc.

Hard Technologies

Perhaps the most important hard technologies used by Wal-Mart are the heating, cooling, and refrigeration systems necessary to ensure products, mostly perishable ones ...

The Iliad is a lengthy poem that tells the events of the Trojan War. The Trojan War is a legendary war that pitted the Trojans against the Greeks (Janko and Kirk 1). The Iliad despite being a very long poem, has a basic structure. Achilles withdrew from the Trojan War after he had quarreled with chief Agamemnon over Briseis (Abel Media, n.p). Achilles was regarded the hero of the Greeks, and his premature withdrawal meant that the Trojans had a chance to defeat the Greeks. After Achilles had withdrawn, disaster befell his companions, and this did not sit well ...

Introduction

Business intelligence is a significant process that enables organizations to make use of the data that they get from business processes. This paper will focus on decision-making process for acquiring Business Intelligence (BI) software for MSC Company. One criteria that would be used in getting the BI software for the company is to assess the cost of the software. The cost will include such factors as the maintainability and the duration that the software will be used in MSC. Since it is a software that will be used for analyzing the data for the company, there is the issue ...

Abstract

As a senior manager of a computer company that competes with Apple, Inc., this paper will conduct a SWOT analysis of Apple Inc. that could help me with my own strategies. The Analysis will identify roughly five factors of Apple’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and will explain why each factor is relevant. It will go into explaining why each example its strength, weakness, opportunity, or a threat. After the analysis, a strategy there will be proposal as well as a product introduced to take advantage of Apple’s vulnerabilities that will help increase my firm’s market share (AIU, 2014).

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A help desk can either be centralized or decentralized. The centralized IT support provides help to every user in the company irrespective of location or even department. Conversely, a decentralized support has several helpdesks within an institution.

In choosing the right help desk model, there are various considerations taken into account in determining to choose either centralized or decentralized systems; since each model has inherent advantages as well as well as disadvantages.

The centralized systems usually offer sizeable economies of scale advantage. Also, centralism of tasks eliminates redundancy of responsibility, which offers a united front to completion of duties ...

Textbook: Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms by Buyya, R., Broberg, J., & Go’sci’nski, A. (2011). Goals: The student will understand the meaning of cloud computing, relate it with their life, understand its benefits, and understand the types of cloud computing

Strategies to address diversity: communication –The learners should engage in interpersonal conversations about cloud computing. The participation of all the parties require the guidance. Connections- the learners should connect with the other content areas that was covered during the course. They can report or participate in the harmonization of the current topic and the earlier learned concepts.

True cloud competencies

In the midst of fresh companies coming up to provide cloud based services each day, the first step is to decide a provider whose main capabilities are concentrated on the cloud. On premise vendors of systems have extremely dissimilar sets of skills, software design, business models, approaches, as well as infrastructure as compared to those central part competencies of a cloud service provider. Much of cloud computing companies’ businesses achievement is dependent on an optimistic performance experience of the system. It is for this reason that real multi-tenant companies for cloud computing places an important resource ...

- Introduction to Relevant Literature

This chapter reviews the literature sources which provide relevant information and data for analyzing the chosen topic of applying the marketing mix in three chosen countries on the examples of three companies: Blizzard Entertainment (US), Rockstar North (UK) and Tencent (China). The main area for the collection of academic sources was marketing, as it is directly connected with the topic. Due to the reason that marketing in computer games is not extensively researched, I reviewed the literature on marketing, game industry and some sources about the three chosen ...

Part with complexity and bring simplicity in your salon by use of a reliable POS system

Even as you look for repeat customers, you also need to lure new customers with a salon experience, one that takes them out of the ordinary. An efficient Payment system software is what can turn all your rings of stress into smiles of greatness, just in a minute. If you want to gain stability and ride on your ambitions to make more out of less, a POS system helps you work out the magic.

Yes, there are over 91214 salons in the U.S alone. In the year 2013, statistics reveals that the salon industry sprouted to $ 7.48billion, which represents a phenomenal number. ...

Abstract

The purpose of this academic article is to illustrate the importance of high availability databases for enterprises in the twenty-first century. It will outline the best practices for implementing high level functionality ...

Section 1: Foundation of the Study

The majority of business information is stored electronically, creating the need for a system of securing this information. As the systems providing computer and internet security becomes more and more complex, security is increasingly compromised. Interlopers and hackers continue to create new and more creative means of gaining entry to information stored on networks, and users are facing an increased number of security attacks. Surprisingly, despite the variety and amount of security risks, security tools designed to counter these are slow to develop appear for business consumption (Garcia-Teodoro et al, 2009). With the introduction of new technological trends, information technology ( ...

According to Clark (2012), Astronomers have measured the background light from all the stars in the cosmos and inferred the number of stars created since the dawn of the universe. The operation was performed using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Emissions were detected from gamma ray emitting supermassive black holes at the centers

of galaxies to undertake the experiment. The study concluded that the universe has an average of 1.4 stars per 100 billion cubic light-years and first stars were formed when the universe was almost 400 million years old.

Study of stars, their formation and their count has always fascinated astronomers. Study of

stars lie at the heart of Astronomy and drives it in most of the cases. Star formation ...

Section 1: Why I think that the following six topics are most important for SuperTraining IT

These topics either speak to issues that are directly relevant to SuperTraining Corporation’s core businesses (advertising, distance learning, internship/placement and tuition finance counseling). Effectively, issues and/or technologies that referred to these core business areas, concerning quality and security (e.g. network security), service delivery (e.g. audio and video streaming) have been chosen. I understand that all the topics in module 2 are necessarily relevant to SuperTraining Corporation, but I was interested in those topics that refer to, or can help create a unique ...

SolidWorks is a software solution that covers all the product development processes with an integrated workflow in the process of verification, data and communication handling, and ensuring a design that is sustainable. It is used by designers and engineers to handle large areas of design with a lot of simplicity; this reduces the cycle of design and enhances productivity, thereby, producing products which are innovative in the market. SolidWorks is a design automation software used to sketch ideas and experiment with different design tools to create 3D models. It is used by students, designers, engineers, among other professionals to produce simple and ...

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Background Information The founders of Google Inc. are Larry Page and Sergey Brin who both studied at Stanford University. In 1998, this private company existed and in 2004, it became known to the public after some stakeholders joined the company. Craig Silverstein, a computer science graduate, student of Page and Brin and became their first employee. The company’s vision is to organize all the information in the world and to make it accessible to all users. In addition, there slogan that helped the company’s growth is “Don’t be Evil.” An upgraded Backrub search engine is operated ...

Introduction

Data is an important element in organizations today. There is a need to ensure that data storage systems are designed to bring the best out of the data that is stored in the company. Data storage design strategy will give the company optimal access to information. With the data storage system, security will be given the focus, and design that it requires. This paper will focus on the design of data storage system for a data collection and analysis system.

SEV is a web analytic company that deals with collection and analysis of customer data. The company was formed to leverage ...

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- Internet Cloud – This is also referred as “network cloud”. It is a public or semi public space. Thus, Internet cloud is a space that encompasses all the information that can be accessed by servers from any point in the world. - Server – A server is a computer program, which gives services to other computer programs. This also fulfills requests from other subsequent client servers and client computers. - Router/ Firewall – This is a device that transmits data packets through different networks. It is connected to local area networks and wide area networks. They are positioned at gateways where ...

ADT is a data collection and analysis company that provides subscription software tools to its customers. The main functions of ADT is to assist its clients in decision-making. It uses the large and consumer related data such as consumer profiles and purchase patterns etc. ADT provides an option to the clients to log into the portal where software for organizing the huge data according to their requirements. The clients can subscribe to the services of ADT by paying for usage time or annual fee basis.

The current information in the database of ADT is raw information. It is stored ...

Company Overview

Microsoft Corporation is a $234.5 billion dollar company engaged in software licensing, support and developing of a wide array of software products and services. The company is also engaged in manufacturing gaming and computing electronics including a sub-division for corporate solutions software and services. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates, the company is voted as the second most valuable company in the world with annual average revenue of $72.93 Billion. Microsoft Corporation is headed by Steven Balimer as CEO and currently headquartered in Redmond Washington in the United States. On September 22, 1993, the company was incorporated and went public, which paved ...

The work of Art, which is discussed in this essay, is a painting of Emile Jean Horace Vernet – “The Scene from the French Campaign of 1814”, created in the 1826. Now, this masterpiece is located in the Legion of HonorGallery 16. This picture was created with oil on canvas.(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.Emile Jean Horace Vernet › Scene from the French Campaign of 1814.(n.d.)) This work is truly considered to be a piece of World Art: as it may be seen, all objects, depicted on it, are quite realistic. On this point it is appropriate to go to the ...

BULLETS 1 to 3: .Any findings can then be used to fill in the gaps that may exist in the extended use of Australian public libraries by traditional and techie users. The reason I chose this project is apparently due to the technological breakthroughs (e.g., Internet, cloud computing, ...

II, William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” Charles Baudelaire, “Get Drunk”

Individualism is the basic trait of romanticism. This element is evident of the production of all the poets of the period, including the selected artists. Individualism distinguishes the point of view of the poet under his perception over the political and social state of the time. It is a reflection of the visionary reality correlated reverence depicted with the use of imagery and embedded with passion and idealism. Together, these elements compose the distinguished style of each poet of the period of romanticism. These traits will ...

Cloud computing is one of the leading technologies in the corporate world today. It helps reduce the operational cost of doing business as well as makes computing more energy efficient. It also facilitates innovation and unlocks other avenues for doing business. Cloud computing is commercially viable for Turner Organic Chocolates since it utilizes existing infrastructure to upgrade efficiency of our data use.

First, it is cost flexible. A recent joint survey by the Economist and the IBM shows that 31% of the companies in the survey cite cost flexibility as an incentive for shifting to cloud computing. The system ...

Information Security

Business continuity planning (BCP) is used by businesses especially those operating through the help of computer network to prepare on how to continue surviving during any disaster, disruptions or changes. It thus gives a surety that there will be continuity of critical business processes in the most unfavorable situations with allowable constraints. BCP is therefore away of enhancing security to the business. The implementation OF BCP is normally done according to laws and regulations provided by BS25999 standard. The standard emphasizes that a business organization needs to have business continuity program set up in place in order to execute its operations ...

Introduction

A web server is defined as a program that uses server or client model to respond to user. It is also used to accept a network connection, read a file, parses the request and sends contents. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and WWW (World Wide Web) are examples of protocols that host the web page files facilitated by users. Each computer that is connected to the internet and hosts a website must always have a well-defined web server program. The most significant web servers are IIS (Internet Information Server) and Apache (Vermeulen, 2004). However, Novell, AS/400 and Lotus Domino are examples of web servers that ...

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Alibaba Group Holding being a business like any other has strength, weakness, and opportunities and threats (SWOT) the same way other business experiences. The company operates in greater parts of China, India, Korea, Japan, US and UK with its’ headquarter in Hangzhou, China and employs a total of 24,000 employees. The following refers to Alibaba’ SWOT analysis.

Strengths:

Strong market position; since Alibaba is the largest e-commerce company, it enjoys a wide and strong market position compared with other enterprises. The presence of electronic commerce value chain; since launched, Alibaba has developed to be one of the leading online payment, e-commerce, cloud ...

Describe how data is transformed into information and how information is transformed into knowledge. Provide examples of how software supports these transformations.

Data and system processing create frameworks for the development of information. In turn, knowledge triggers good decision-making while wisdom upholds an ideal culture towards sustaining the decisions. The focused efforts for the data transformation into information and to knowledge are the core of successful systems of knowledge management. Irrespective of knowledge management systems setting up ideals to organize e-mail messages or integrate the requirements of complex web users from a given facility, the fundamentals can be related to the ability of organizing, interpreting, communicating, and making decisions through multiple sources and information bits. Transformation of information into useful knowledge for ...

Introduction

It has been observed that, the world is changing a lot from the technological perspective. Hence, it is important for the organizations dealing with large data sets to implement strategies regarding security of these data sets. Big data sets can be referred to as large pieces of information stored in servers, or rather server farms. The traditional means of processing all these data sets will not be useful, and even, there would be a risk of security breach within these data sets. Hence, we are required to implement security analytics that will help in increasing the security of this data and, ...

Information technology as a phenomenon that plays a significant role in the life of society and human is relatively recent. Many experts connect it with the information revolution that started at the beginning of the 90s of the last century. The greatest influence on this process was by the development of local and global networks, industry of personal computers production, the Internet widespread, but the main driver of this process was the emergence of new services for the globalization of information exchange (creating the World Wide Web for standardization of search and delivery of multimedia documents). Today I consider that it ...