Cloud Computing is considered one of the top five emerging technologies that will have a major impact on the quality of science and society over next 20 years. It provides a way to centralize the...

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Cloud Computing
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Executive Summary
The purpose of this report is to look into the feasibility of acquiring the services of cloud
computing as opposed to the traditional ways of acquiring the data in the server room physically.
Like an organisation, an individual also faces the problem of choosing between the two. For
example- he has the opportunity of storing some individual files either on a portable device such
as a USB or he or she can carry the same virtually on his mail via a saved copy and the same can
be addressed from Internet anywhere. They organization should acquire the services so that the
employees also get freedom from taking their devices even to places where they need not to as
the systems are already installed with Internet access, but the managers can access their mail
only through their own computer and not through the web. Thus, the report first introduces the
company for which the report has been prepared. The report highlights the issues and challenges
of It in the organisation, Finally, the reports provides a set of recommendations based on the
cost-benefit analysis of cost computing as an alternative.
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Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................. 4
IT infrastructure: issues and challenges ....................... 5
Cloud Computing and its business benefits and costs .... 6
Cloud Computing as an Industry ................................. 8
Recommendation of cloud computing adoption ............ 10
Conclusions ............................................................. 10
References .............................................................. 11
Appendix ................................................................ 12
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Introduction
This report relates to Pearsons group of advantage and the broad description has been given on
the feasibility of acquiring cloud computation technique has been elaborated. The name of the
organisation is Pearsons Private limited and it was incorporated back in 2000. It started as a
manufacturer of electronic goods which were reasonable enough if it is considered from the point
of view of price. The business in the last decade has seen some revolutionary changes in the era
of technology and also due to the ever increasing globalisation (Morgan, G 2006). This has
certainly changed the way how business is conducted and how it is approached by the top
officials. Keeping up closely with the objective which is to build quality into operations and to
ensure zero defect products and thereby achieving excellence in organisational performance and
satisfaction of the customers, the business then decided to spread across various verticals which
includes mobile manufacturing, test and repair centre, manufacturing innovative electronic goods
which are compatible with other electronics so that they can be connected to each other to give
the end customer a rich experience, this has certainly increased the need for top officials to
negotiate and be in sync as both the producers of the company will have to adhere to certain
principles so that their products or devices can be connected to each other, the company then
decided to moved on to introducing an education centre of their own which is indeed a part of the
service industry (Thornburg 2004). Service industry essentially involves a commitment of
continuous and a consistent delivery of satisfaction to clients as it does not involve
manufacturing a standard product, rather it involves the human element wherein every service
delivered has the right to be different from another. The main business vertical of the company is
still the production and manufacturing of innovative products to keep surprising their end
customers and constantly giving them a wow effect. The company leaving apart the service
business vertical of education centre, has got everything to do with innovative ideas and an
important part of that is that even if an idea strikes an employee who might not belong to the
senior management level, it should flow from bottom to top as the ideas which come from these
employees cannot be ignored under any circumstances owing to the fact that they have rich
experience they have from working everyday and the flow of information and ideas should be
both vertical and horizontal in the internal environment of an organisation to ensure that the flow
of ideas is justified which is inevitable for an organisation like this (Wolpert 1996).
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IT infrastructure: issues and challenges
Since the company also specializes in providing chip level repair services to the clients, they
have also recently expanded their business verticals to introduction of a call center and also have
also started to offer their services in the wireless industry. The issues related to IT which they
face as far as the call center is concerned are that they have to keep a track of all the data that
holds critical value for the organisation. The organisation gets the data every month from the
parent company and the same gets converted into useful data. Often, the IT issues and threats
that have been identified are losing the data due to mishandling and not keeping it secure. The
organisation often gets orders from national bodies for strengthening the overall network
distribution in the economy. They are increasing the number and scope of work performed by
them. It includes Original Equipment Manufacturer/Telecom equipment manufacturers. Thus,
they use the suppliers from all sorts of sources which often include local vendors as long as they
trust the source and have been conducting business with them. Also, Cyber security threats such
as spam, phishing, spyware and adware do present considerable risks and can prove to be
harmful for the information security of the organisation as their sensitive and secret information
can be leaked at any point of time. However many organizations are required to report the
existing security system that are being used by the organizations and it has to be brought to the
knowledge of the parties. It has been seen in the important phases of the report that cyber
security threats such as spam, phishing and spyware have broadened in scope and are not the
same which could have been ignored by users as was the case four to five years back. The
organisation should prepare them efficiently to be able to keep themselves updated with the
security concerns. They should make periodic assessments that would be target anticipating what
other activities are being undertaken by the spammers to get private and sensitive information of
the internet users (Argyris, 2007). Security awareness training should be given to all the
employees of the organisation so that they are well aware of these techniques used. They would
also be given proper training to make sure that they do not follow into the trap of these activities.
Along with that they would also be told about hoe to report such incidents to the concerned
person as soon as it is seen that certain activities are suspicious. In the times to come, in the light
of increasing globalisation, there could also be a provision made by all the organizations to make
a global body who would...