Future of Falcon Security with Cloud
Lavanya Pentyala
Regis University
09/27/2017
Abstract
As a growing company, Falcon Security team need rapid growth in their infrastructure to support new customer base. This paper describes cloud computing models, benefits, and challenges. This paper suggests various cloud offerings to support the growing business of Falcon Security. The paper suggests Falcon adopt cloud Platform as a Services like Amazon RDS, storage services like Amazon S3, Software as a Services like Google Mail, office 365 and Microsoft CRM online. The paper is concluded comparing Service-Oriented-Architecture(SOA) and Cloud.
Keywords: Platform as a Service(PaaS), Software as a Service(SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture(SOA),
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There are three major cloud deployment models along with few other emerging models like federated and intercloud [1].
Private Cloud
Private cloud is the best choice for companies that already own datacenter and developed IT infrastructure and have specific needs around security or performance. The cloud is managed, owned, and operated by the organization, a third party, or some combination of them, and it may exist on or off premises.
Public Cloud
Public cloud is the infrastructure for open use. It is hosted on the premises of the cloud provider. Public cloud is flexible, scalable and cost-effective. The data and processing environment are not under control of enterprises. The model is not suitable for applications or data with a security requirement.
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud is a combination of cloud infrastructures (public, private, or community) that remain unique but are tied together by standardized technology that enables application and data portability. Hybrid cloud is the most complicated configuration to manage and the most economical model. It combines benefits of the secured environment in private clouds and rapid elasticity of public clouds.
Service Models
There are three widely used and accepted cloud service models. Service models like Data Analytics as a Service and HPC/Grid as a Service are emerging as useful models [1]. One can select an appropriate service model based on the availability of suitable application, development and test
Business owners use three types of cloud service, public, private, and hybrid these clouds store their data and provide them with services. The benefits of these clouds are endless, additionally, they saves businesses time and money, promoting innovation, enhancing productivity, and improving communication while cloud hosting accelerate information sharing, like email, application hosting, web-based phone, and data storage (Griffith, 2013).
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A hybrid Cloud Deployment model with a combination of Public, Private and Community models will be used. The Cloud Service Delivery model will be a combination of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS to satisfy the requirements of the multiple business units within the organization, customers, and suppliers resulting in a cost reduction through optimized and efficient computing
Hybrid Clouds - Hybrid Clouds are a combination of multiple public and private clouds. They provide a complexity to distribute applications across both types of clouds. This allows obtaining a maximum of cost reduction while giving the ability to
One section is referred to the public cloud in which it can be used as a pay as you go service (Armbrust et al., 2010). The private cloud is the second section. This is in reference to the enormous data centers in use by organizations and private businesses. These businesses will see the most benefit from using cloud technology. Furthermore, people involved in cloud computing can be organized into two groups as well; the cloud providers and the cloud user’s. The cloud user’s take resources from the cloud and utilize data storage. Cloud providers house the hardware or equipment for the cloud and also manage it.
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Cloud computing is used to connect ‘n’ number of computers to a single network and gaining different level of access across the world. It is used to reduce the IT infrastructure because it provides different type of services like servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and so on over the Cloud Computing. In present world we have different type of cloud computing like Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Salesforce etc. with different specifications which are required to others. Each service has its once implementation techniques to provide user friendly accessible.
Private Cloud is also known as internal cloud which the platform for cloud computing is under a more secure environment that is safeguarded by
Hybrid Cloud Storage: It combines public and private cloud storage which some critical data resides in the enterprise's private cloud while other data is stored and accessible from a public cloud storage provider.