Cloud Computing Case Studies Samples For Students

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 up with better ...

Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon.com Inc. (AWS- Amazon Web Services)

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 ...

For : Prof. Muhamad Ali

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 ...

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 in ...

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 and processes ...

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 offered to ...

Introduction

In the modern world, the web developers have several technologies to apply. These range from very simplified access of database to a surplus of interesting client side software.(Zeldman, J. 2003) .The paper is going to analyze some of the protocols that web architecture supports.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is currently the standard protocol which is being used by many people to explore the internet as compared to simple object access protocol.(SOAP).In terms of structure, HTTP uses IP address efficiently in that it gives room for many domains to be served by single IP address. (Zeldman, J. ...

Chapter 5: Case Study- Should Businesses Move to the Cloud?

- What business benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?

- Flexible computing power and data storage
- Messaging payment services
- Data management services
- Cost-savings on data- processing services and the avoidance of software purchases, installation and maintenance. (Erl, Puttini & Mahmood, 2013)
Cloud computing basically allows businesses to access and use softwares and applications via the internet without having to go through the problems of purchasing, installing, updating and maintaining those applications and softwares. As such, cloud computing reduces the problem of a company having too much Information Technology (IT) ...

Cloud computing involves delivery of computer software or hardware through internet. The end users of software or the hardware receive this application via a web browser. Cloud computing enables a firm to reduce the cost associated with the infrastructure. The firm is relieved the cost of developing of the infrastructure. As a result, the firm will be in a position to concentrate on other factors that affect the success of a business, to remain competitive in business, Salesforce.com has embraced cloud computing. The firm leases its software as opposed to other firm, which sell their software and hardware.

Question 1

The company provides a forum where the ...

Management

Management
Chapter 8, pg 304: When Antivirus Software Cripples your Computers
- What management, organization and technology factors were responsible for McAfee’s software problem?
The technical factor that was responsible for McAfee’s software problem is that they failed to include “Windows XP Service Pack 3 with VirusScan version 8.7 in the test configuration of operating systems and McAfee product versions”. Another blunder committed by McAfee is that the users were not given a warning that “svchost.exe was to be quarantined or deleted, instead of automatically disposing the file”. Management could also be faulted for relying ...

Dalton, Walton, & Carlton, Inc., a vibrant architecture firm, currently faces some challenges in terms of securing its It infrastructure and making it more effective. This paper presents the first steps in auditing the company’s virtualized environment and also its cloud computing and outsourced operations.

Auditing Virtualized Environments

When auditing virtualized environment for Dalton, Walton, & Carlton, Inc., I would start by documenting the overall virtualization management architecture including hardware and supporting network infrastructure (Davis, Schiller & Wheeler, 2011). To achieve this, I would review and discuss with the company’s systems administrator to ascertain that the management and document structures are in accordance with ...

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 paper ...

Data recovery is an important factor for many producing companies. These companies stock a lot of data that if lost, the company can stop its operations. Therefore these companies should have data recovery programs that ensure that data can be obtained after calamities have occurred leading to loss of data. The data recovery programs should be effective and cost effective to the organizations (Halpert, 2011). The management of companies should therefore take measures to ensure that proper and reliable backup are in place. Even though having back up is expensive, having them is extremely important in that they facilitate continuity ...

Theme A: Knowing the Market, Cloud Models, and Ecosystem

1. Describe which market segment(s) Zuora serves in the time-frame and setting of the case?
Zuora Inc had been engaging in the industry as a top player in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) billings and in the payment systems. This was due to the experience and expertise that had been brought to the company by the technical management and the technicians (UC Berkeley 2009). There is also The Z-billing that the company had been majoring was aimed at the market of the development community, offline subscription businesses and all the businesses including the smaller ones such as the plumbers and ...

Wikis are Web 2.0 tools that can be used to publish and share information through a Web site (Frydenberg & Press, 2009). As a collaborative tool, a wiki can be used for online discussions, for facilitating coordination on group projects, and can reduce the need for frequent meetings (“Eight Ways to Use School Wikis,” 2009). It can also be used for the posting of announcements and notes that users can easily refer to when necessary. In addition, it makes the sharing of documents and ideas easy. It can also be easily set up and has a very intuitive interface that anyone can quickly ...

Risks and Vulnerabilities Associated with Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Hybrid

Public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds are different in several ways. The use of cloud computing poses various risks to the users of cloud computing. The following are some of the risks that are involved in the use of clouds.

Environmental security

The approach used in cloud computing is that many of the computing resources are located in a common cloud computing area (Romes, 2013). This concentration of resources and uses elevates the cloud computing environment which results in an increase in the number of threats. Cloud computing environments have an allure to attackers due to their significance to the ...

Introduction

The Eastman Kodak Company was founded by George Eastman in 1880, after he invented the formula of dry-plate along with a machine that prepared these plates. In merely four years’ time, Kodak became a household name as the photographic plates were replaced with a film roll that were more user-friendly. Eastman emphasized that this film rolls made the product “as convenient as the pencil”, and the first ever marketing campaign for the company was launched with the slogan, “You press the button, and we do the rest.” The guiding principles for Kodak were identified as: mass production at a low cost, extensive advertising, ...

Summary

The case study provides insight into the emergence and the growth of the cloud computing, which is perceived as a threat to the Microsoft businesses. For the last two decades, people and enterprises have been storing their data and running their applications on their computer hardware. In this case, the majority of the laptops and desktops have been running Windows, which is one of the profitable product of the Microsoft. However, with the development of the high bandwidth internet connections, people are now running application and storing their data remotely on "in the cloud" on severing farms (Hill and ...

Introduction

In this current age technology-based solutions are the main drive for business growth. A company that lags behind in adopting technology-based solutions risk the potential effect of incurring losses and finally bowing out of the business. Amaco is a systems development company having been in the industry for more than 10 years. It has seven branches all over the globe with three in Europe, one in Middle East, One in Africa and the headquarters in San Francisco U.S.A. Over time, it has realized that business environment is changing and needs to adapt to the changes in order to remain competitive. ...

Question 1

Business processes are the set of interrelated tasks that comprise the development of an organization’s behavior in the attainment of business objectives. It is also related to the organization and coordination of business activities that are aimed at achieving set objectives. Business processes may comprise the creation and development of a new product in the market. Business processes may also involve processes that involve the development of a precise market plan. The manner of implementation of an organization’s business processes can be instrumental in the success of a business.

Business processes may require a means for the specific goals to be ...

Background

Smith Information Services Inc.
Smith Information Services Inc. is a company that offers consumer information services. The company has grown very fast over the recent past. However, currently, competition in the market has increased posing a lot of challenge to the company. As a result, it has affected the profits of the company negative in the past two years. The key reason for the decreased costs within the company is the increased costs of operation. The Data Center of the company is the major reason leading to increased costs of operation.
The company has a mainframe computer installed in ...

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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 ...

Policy questions and issues the company might face

In my company there are legal and regulatory issues that I will taken care of. When moving the company’s applications and data to the Cloud, they will be located anywhere in the planet by the providers. In this case the management of data will be determined by the set of laws applied to the physical location of data centers and clusters. I will use a conservative approach to host the companies sensitive data. Due to the availability of zones6 promoted by Amazon EC2 in US will be an advantage to the company because it will identify a set of resources ...

Cloud computing is a new technological offering that is shaping business and institutional entities. Cloud computing is beneficial because a school can achieve much of its computing needs without great infrastructural investments. It also facilitates collaboration between remote locations. Hence, it is economical and facilitates valuable service delivery. Many cloud services have come up in the market. The two major industry players analyzed for this paper include Microsoft Azure and Amazon’s Web Services.
Amazon S3 is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon. It has a simple web-service interface that allows data, of any volume, to be stored and accessed, at ...

In 2011 Sony corporation suffered several major attacks by hackers angered over Sony’s prosecution of people who had illegally modified Sony PlayStations. These attacks exposed several weaknesses in Sony security. The purpose of this article is to address each of these weaknesses in turn and to attempt to suggest the best solution for each.

In recent years, one of the most exciting new ideas in IT has been cloud computing based on Web 2.0 technologies that foster greater user interaction and sharing. For businesses, this often refers to the process in which they make use or one or ...

Google Corporation was established in 1998 with the purpose to organize all the world’s information and making it useful. Google sees its work far above the web.
With the development of applications for tablets and smartphones, Google became an Internet powerhouse, not just a search engine. It has become a global “vacuum cleaner” of the information. Google gathers what the users are searching for, making a unique portrait of each person by their search requests.
Google was found by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The company has an interesting organisational structure. For example, every employee of Google is ...

According to Hao in the case Datavast Inc.: The Target Segment Decision, Datavast had been established five years ago to offer cloud-computing services. The firm had just adjustments to its original product and, therefore, the management felt it was the right time to gain penetration into the market using their refurbished product. However, the challenge that was eminent was the target market choice considering that the general manager was contemplating whether to focus on small-to-medium segments businesses that would be sensitive to the set prices or to focus on big corporations segment that allowed quite higher unit contributions.

Criteria That Will Be Used In the Decision Making Process

First, ...

Ipv6 Deployment Case Studies

Figure 1: Graphical internet usage trend 9
Figure 2: IPv6 tunneling 11
Figure 3: Data routing 13
Figure 4: Internet protocol suite 15

Introduction

In the midst of the number of IPv4 addresses almost entirely depleted, the realization of IPv6 has become a prime concern for many organizations. However, it is not possible to, immediately, change the whole thing over to IPv6 without a few transitions. This Paper takes a look at the ways that can be used to successfully transit to IPv6 from IPv4 among other deployment issues.

Section 1: IPv6 deployment strategy

The global IPv6 deployment recently made a significant milestone on the internet. ...

Objectives and Metrics

This is a go-to-market plan for Getronics’ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which seeks to meet the following key objectives.
- Establish Getronics brand as leading provider of innovative and differentiated products in the industry, effectively shedding the “me too” image in the first year of operation.
- Ensure that the VDI product breaks even during the first six months after its launch
- Achieve at least $50 million in the initial three months of operation (Yip & Hult, 2011)
- Achieve a 4% market share of the UK market’s virtual hosted desktops by the close of the ...

Discussion

One of the sustainability efforts by Microsoft is using information technology to improve energy efficiency. Microsoft is empowering people and organizations on how to use software to assist in increasing energy efficiency and hasten innovation and the use of clean energy resources. Microsoft is especially focused in upgrading energy efficiency of information technology. This is through working in collaboration with customers and other players in ensuring that there is increased energy efficiency across all sectors of the economy. Additionally, Microsoft is developing new products and services that will aid in solving environmental problems. The company is focusing on developing ...

1. Apple and Security. In the interest of the hundreds of iTunes users who have been scammed in the past few months as well as the company’s integrity, Apple must immediately answer the questions posed by the Attorney General Coakley’s office, pertaining to its iTunes transactions. While secrecy had always been one of the company’s strengths and it had always been able to cater its customers flawlessly until now, large scale phishing is quite another matter and a certain degree of transparency needs to be adapted even if the data is “passed through” for transactions. Within the ...

Google competitive situation

Before Google Inc. gained the market power, Yahoo has dominated the internet marketing, email, and online advertisement. Later, Google Inc. developed a superior operating platform that won the rivalry between it and the incumbent market shareholder, Yahoo. Even though Google market share grew past 90%, by 2009, in most countries in the U.K., the firm knew that competition was not far. To counter such a competitive advantage, it rival Microsoft Inc. opted to acquire Yahoo, but its $44.6billion was unsuccessful (Edelman & Eiesmenn, 2014). The antitrust war blocked Microsoft’s move, but it was in favor of Google. Microsoft’s strategy of ...

Management

Abstract
This paper describes Smiths Information Services Inc. Data centre outsourcing options. As part of corporate overhead reduction program Smith’s Information Service Inc., is faced with a variety of options with regards to outsourcing its data centre management services. The paper reviews the business outsourcing alternatives, short term and long term considerations with data security, service-level agreements, and HR and client issues being of major concern. It will also discuss contractual parameters for the outsourcing process as well as evaluation criteria proposed to be included in the RFP. Finally, the paper will discuss vendor particulars and timeline for ...

Compare the business models and areas of strength of Apple, google and Microsoft?

Microsoft, apple and google are the three major companies with major stakes in the mobile services, computers and the internet services all over the world. The three are prime competitors with each trying to get a lion’s share of the market niches. However they are all known to prevail in an area respectively.
Microsoft dominates the computer and PC field, the company has developed the best operating systems, and computer application programs. For a long time now, Microsoft has been the leading supplier and developer of user friendly Windows operating system and the reliable and easy to use Microsoft ...

Payroll management systems are software’s used by organizations to generate pay slips and salary records as per the employee work attendance and factoring in allowances, overtime, loans, advances and other types of deductions. The management software’s consist of activities that aid in the completion of work through efficient and organized quick methods. Generally, they improve the processing of information in a standard prescribed manner.
Payroll management systems fall in the administration section of an organization. The objectives of the administration department involve the generation of pay roll for all employees in an organized and standardized manner. In ...

Question 1

Drop box is a company dealing with the backup of files and data for companies. It therefore deals with sharing of information and data through networks for the purposes of security. This company has a competitive edge over the others like carbonate and Mozi. Drop box has a higher storage capacity in the account of the customer making them also easy to share files from one account to another while both Mozy and Carbonite have no capability of sharing files. This product is easy to use and it provides search capabilities in full-text.
It is also compatible with Macs, Linux and ...

The use of information technology is important in the current society. More innovations are coming up daily. The main reason why companies use information technology is to gain a competitive advantage. According to Carr (2003), companies in the early 1980’s used information technology as a competitive advantage. For instance, the American Hospital Supply introduced electronic ordering of medical supplies by hospitals. This provided American Hospital supply with a competitive advantage over its rivals in the same industry.
The implementation of new technologies, however, requires proper research to ensure the company does not invest in poor decisions.

Companies need to be ...

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Microsoft Corporation: External Analysis
Introduction
External analysis is an important part of the strategy planning. It provides valuable inputs for the formulation of business strategy of an organisation. The external analysis, primarily, constitutes of two parts: analysis of broader macro-economic factors and analysis of the industry that the company operates in. The objective of the paper is to conduct external analysis of Microsoft to identify the major outside threats and external opportunities for the company. The paper is divided into four parts. In the first part, a scan of macroeconomic environment of the company is conducted. The second ...

Google is a large multinational organization involved in business of internet search, cloud computing and internet advertising technologies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, It is one of the most profitable and widely recognized internet companies in the world. The work environment in Google is considered to be the one of the most employee-friendly in the world and it attracts one of the brightest and most entrepreneurial individuals into the organization. However in 2010 it was found that the turnover was on a sudden rise with many of its key employees leaving to either join other competent organizations or start-up their own business. ...

Salesforce.Com: Cloud Services Go Mainstream

1. How does Salesforce.com use cloud computing?

Salesforce.com uses cloud computing to provide their clients with access to a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software and other applications in the form of software as a service where the software can be accessed via the Internet. In particular, their products are grouped into three types of clouds, namely the Service Cloud, the Sales Cloud, and the Custom Cloud. The Service Cloud consists of applications meant to improve customer service while the Sales Cloud consists of applications that aim to improve sales. The Custom Cloud, on the other hand, serves as a platform or environment ...