The main driving forces of cloud data storage are reputable companies such as Amazon and Google building comprehensive computing infrastructures (Google, 2009). These infrastructures are removing the complexity of in-house data storage and ultimately reducing costs of limited networked data centres (Hitachi, 2010). The traditional inefficient model of purchasing servers every time you need to accommodate for high use or growth is now being replaced by internet based systems that replicate your data centres but without the big overheads (Google, 2009). This flexibility assists in the ever changing business world and its continuous improvement initiatives to remove waste, improve efficiency, and ultimately reduce costs. Another key driving force is the support for effective business continuity which will remove again the hardware costs and the strain on risk assessment and management. Removing this hassle can free up valuable time for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Information Technology (IT) department to implement IT and Information Management (IM) efficiently and in due course reduce cost. Werner Vogles of Amazon of Web Services (Twitter) supports the idea of less hardware because if you have to buy more hardware to initiate this cloud movement it is not a cloud. This further supports the need to shed the old procedures of having in-house hardware and data storage and instil efficacy.
Cloud data storage is reaching small to medium sized companies, this is being achieved by flexible costs which is assisting manageability of data capacity. The more data stored, the lower the price. This is encouraging the strategic side of companies to look at this new phenomenon closely. As this is geared towards bringing enterprise ...
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Symantec’s recent State of the Information survey – conducted over 38 countries worldwide – found that subject matter experts expected their data storage needs to increase by 178% over the next year (Kilpatrick, 11). This is a truly astounding number that has already been realized. Data storage needs continue to expand yearly at similar levels. How will small business keep up financially with a burgeoning infrastructure? What about paying the cost required to ensure security, both in terms of specialized equipment and qualified personnel to operate it? Can small business successfully identify, mitigate, and accept risk associated with their stored data? According to Shailja Tripathi, a research scholar at the Facility of Operations and Systems, IFHE University, in Hyderabad, India, public cloud computing may be the answer to these questions for small businesses. Public cloud computing can access infrastructure, network storage, operating systems, and applications online from a centralized, third-party facility that specializes in those services. This view is also shared by Renee and Darren Conner, President and Director of Product Development respectively, at PensionPro Software in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. If an internet connection is available, this resource is available for use. One only needs to look as far as Google Apps to see this in action. Expanding the use of public cloud computing will drastically improve future cybersecurity postures in small business.
When they wanted to save photos online instead of on your personal computer, they are able to use “cloud computing” service. Cloud computing means that the transfer of computing data or information over the internet. Not just to keep data in your personal computer, they are able to save the data on internet server to open their data in any computer. In this report we will walk through about what is cloud computing, what kinds of model did cloud computing have, types of cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, and security.
The cloud storage services are important as it provides a lot of benefits to the healthcare industry. The healthcare data is often doubling each and every year and consequently this means that the industry has to invest in hardware equipment tweak databases as well as servers that are required to store large amounts of data (Blobel, 19). It is imperative to understand that with a properly implemented a cloud storage system, and hospitals can be able to establish a network that can process tasks quickly with...
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Cloud computing is here and basically every business, corporation, or organization is using it in some form. Learning and understanding the opportunities and risks that is interlinked with this technology can be very important. Cloud computing is a model for allowing convenient, on-demand network access to a shared collection of configurable computing resources. These resources included networks, storage, applications, servers, and services. It can be quickly provisioned and distributed with insignificant effort or interaction of service provider. Characteristics of cloud computing include rapid elasticity, broad network access, on demand self-service, measured service, and resource pooling.
Despite the numerous advantages offered by cloud computing, security is a big issue concerned with cloud computing. There are various security issues and concerns associated with cloud computing, among them being phishing, data loss and data privacy. There are different mitigation measures that cloud pioneers are currently using to ensure data stored in the cloud remain secure and confidential as intended. Encryption is one mitigation method used to ensure security in cloud computing. According to Krutz and Vines (2010), encryption involves coding of the data stored in the computing cloud such that hackers cannot gain access to the data. Data encryption seems to be the most effective method of ensuring security in computing (Krutz and Vines, 2010). However, it is of paramount importance to note that encrypted data is usually difficult to search or perform various calculations on it.
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Several types of cloud storage systems have been developed to supporting both personal and business uses. Cloud storage also a model of networked enterprise storage where the data is stored not only in the user's computer, but also in virtualized of storage, which generally hosted by third parties company.
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