Cloud Contingency Plan

After reading many articles about Cloud Computing I saw the bright future for these types of cloud services. Aside from educating myself on this topic I feel that this could be beneficial to my fellow Computer Technology peers to address their client or employers cloud needs as well as people who are going to start a business and are looking at the options available to address their companies demands.

This case gives us a fundamental understanding of the concept of cloud computing and presents the advantages and issues of this IT infrastructure. This case gives a clear vision of the company’s current situation. Three main questions to consider

“Cloud” computing is the fanciest buzzword in the computer industry, currently surpassing the last big term “web 2.0”. Every big player in the computer industry launched a cloud service last year. Notable examples are iCloud by Apple, (Apple 2012) or Microsoft Cloud Services (Microsoft 2011), copying various innovators like Google or Dropbox, who offer similar services since much longer. The latter is the most successful

Whether it’s called Cloud Computing or On-demand Computing, Software as a Service, or the Internet as Platform, the common element is a shift in the geography of computation. When you create a spreadsheet with the Google Docs service, major components of the software reside on unseen computers, whereabouts unknown, possibly scattered across continents. This affects all levels of the computational ecosystem, from casual user to software developer, IT manager, even hardware manufacturer. Recently, a lot of vendors have started talking about “cloud computing” in their marketing materials. Citing a research published by Merrill Lynch entitled “The Cloud Wars: $100+ billion at stake,” Merrill Lynch has estimated a $160- billion addressable market opportunity, including $95- billion in business and productivity applications, and another $65-billion in online advertising for Cloud Computing. But the main question is whether the users are ready to give up using services on their local machines and shift to the Cloud since shifting to cloud computing has both advantages and disadvantages for all possible users; nevertheless, they may have different level of importance for different users

Cloud computing represents the next generation in the future of web enabled IT capabilities. Many major vendors such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and others now offer business solutions through the cloud as well as the iCloud provided by Apple and targeted to consumers. Although most of these products are offered as software as a service, the cloud as now consists of expanded capabilities that include items such as infrastructure as a service. One of the most successful versions of this technology has been provided by Amazon's Web Services (AWS) and other solutions from Amazon. This paper gives a brief overview of some of the latest developments regarding the scalability, manageability, and adaptability of some of these technologies.

Cloud services can make huge competitive advantages to the enterprise companies, if the applications are correctly architected to satisfy the business requirements. Some enterprises don’t fully understand while embracing new technologies, as they rush into development mode and forgo the necessary architecture and design changes needed in their IT landscape. Sometimes they also have unrealistic expectations like

Going to the Cloud is like switching off your electricity generator and moving to the power grid. Cloud mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) has provided businesses with greater flexibility in the services they offer and the improvement of processes behind those offerings. With the driving of Cloud based applications, primarily motivated by the benefits of the fast on-demand availability of big tech cloud providers such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – new types of services are beginning to replace functions that were traditionally done in-house.

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile technologies and services that provide for over two billion subscribers (Amazon, 2012). They were one of the first companies to take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive cost reduction measures, automate software updates, provide remote access, and also provide on-demand availability. Working with RightScale, a cloud consulting firm, Ericsson was able to overcome security concerns as well as benefit from the scalability of the platform. This paper analyzes a few of the factors that lead Ericsson to successfully build a reliable cloud platform.

He had been following the market trends. Many of the big players have been transitioning to the cloud. His CEO mentioned that one of the board members with cloud expertise made a off the cuff remark, “when are you moving away from the relics? Cloud services are the evolving into the dominant force.” John patiently listened. What he could not share was that the board member examples were all new business. It is much easier to start new business than transition services for existing ones. There can be no slip up on continuity of service.

Simply put, cloud technology means sharing resources, information, and software over a network such as the internet as opposed to using a personal computer, server, or other computer hard drive. It is delivered as a service rather than a product like traditional computing. The different services are called Software as a Service or “SaaS, Infrastructure as a Service “LaaS”, Computing as a Service “CaaS”, and Platform as a Service “PaaS”. Many people believe that moving to the cloud is the future of IT and several businesses already rely on the cloud for all of their technology needs. We are going to look into how cloud computing works, what makes it successful and what are some issues that may arise from moving away from traditional

Delivering a new application is now as fast as opening your internet browser.” (Salesforce, 2016) Salesforce has not only leveraged the ease and fluid maintenance of SaaS based solutions that organizations seek, but with multiple cloud based offerings, that eliminate the need for maintaining hardware and software infrastructures within an organization, They have also leveraged the Platform as a Service (PaaS) market. Enterprises of all sizes have adopted PaaS solutions like Salesforce for the simplicity, scalability, and reliability. PaaS applications also have the latest features without constant upgrade needs.

Google Cloud has one of the largest and most advanced computer networks. Google’s network has thousands of miles fiber optic cable to deliver fast, consistent and scalable performance. Google has data centers all over the world, and your data is automatically mirrored across multi-location storage devices. Google Cloud Platform allows you to create anything from a simple website to complex applications. It’s a set of cloud based services that falls under Compute, Storage, Big Data and Services.

To the develop the system a number of resources will need to be integrated. This section of the paper provides an overview of some the main computing resources that will be utilised; Google App Engine, Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Lambda.

People have a tendency to talk about cloud computing as if everyone understands exactly what this means. If you have never had it explained, it is possible that you may not have any idea about what it is. To

There is a flare-up in businesses wanting to be “in the cloud.” Cloud computing could be the next revolution in computing, a gold rush that could become even more lucrative than the hundred-billion dollar operations that run today. According to Structure Research reports, the global market for massive-scale public cloud services is growing at more than 61%. They project it to reach $122 billion in 2020.This amazing statistics tells us how the market is shifting towards cloud computing and has vast opportunities to be explored by Big Tech giants. Even though Google has essentially invented cloud computing by building the huge data centres required to run its search engine, it initially