Cloud Computing

Article No.1 “Cloud Computing: The Business Perspective”

Purpose of Study

The research paper focuses over the business perspective of the cloud computing. The evolution of the cloud computing is one of the major advancement in the history of computing that had provided the global platform for conducting business on international level. This article mainly focuses over the issues faced by the service providers of cloud computing and the consumers effectively. Many researchers have been conducting over the issues faced by the business sector as far as cloud computing is concerned this article is one of them. This article mainly focuses over the strengths and weaknesses of cloud computing as well as the different risk factors involved in this business are also covered in this article (Marston, et.al, 2011).

Sampling Comments

The article effectively focuses over leading cloud computing service providers such Cisco, Microsoft, Google etc. IBM is leading IT company that is also provides the different business solutions for small and large businesses using the cloud computing technology. However there are many security concerns that are associated with the hacking of confidential data. That needs to be addressed.

Measures

There are various problems that may affect cloud computing in the global world and adversely affect its global market. In order to overcome such challenges and problems various measures are to be taken by the service providers and must develop some strategy in order to overcome such issues. The service providers must develop such applications that meet the need of the customers apart from developing them as they could be developed. In this business the customers must be the first priority and the customer satisfaction must be considered for the expansion and stability of this business. In order to so two strategies are proposed in the research article the one includes comprehensive migration strategy for all the existing applications and the other one includes divide and conquer strategy (Marston, et.al, 2011).

Findings/Results/Main Points

The article initially reveals the various advantages of the cloud computing that favors its business expansion and success. The overall cost for availing the service of cloud computing is very low that can be used by many third world countries that lacks the use of technology in their businesses due to being much expensive. This technology also presents instant access to different hardware resources present within the hardware. This also helps in lowering IT barriers and helps the businesses to scale their information and services according to the requirement of the customers. This also helps in developing new classes of application that were not possible before. On the hand there are many problems and issues faced by the cloud computing technology that may affect the business operations. These issues includes that the business organization using the cloud computing technology looses their control over their data when once put on the cloud. The service providers sometimes face difficulty in determining the proper location of data on the server on which the data is placed. The large organizations do not trust these services as the cloud is ...