INTRODUCTION
Cloud computing has boost a large amount of interest in the IT industry. The market research and analysis firm IDC suggests that the market for cloud computing services was $16bn in 2008 and will rise to $42bn/year by 2012 (Chhabra, Verma & Taneja, 2010) .The era of cloud computing introduces a new dimension for Enterprises. The academia and research worlds have developed a keen interest into challenges and issues introduced by this relatively new concept (Sriram & Khajeh-Hosseini, 2009). As experienced by large or small companies while adopting cloud computing technology, the issues can be outlined as security, privacy, data migration as (Hosseini, et al., 2010 ).
Adoption of cloud technology by enterprises especially those are using KBE (knowledge based engineering) systems are in risk in terms of migration their data over the cloud. Most enterprises are in a midst of creating, sharing, streaming and storing data in digital formats to allow collaboration , hence there is a need to continuously managed and protect the data to ensure its value and authenticity (Yale & Chow, 2011). Enterprises now acquire increasingly more information about their products, customers and partners- whether it’s stored in a cloud environment or not and failure to protect this data can be damaging. Partners and clients anticipate their information will be constantly protected before conducting business with a company. Within lay the need for complete data governance to manage and protect crucial data, which has become a key issue for the cloud (Yale, 2011).
The literature review aims to address the adoption of cloud computing within enterprises those are using KBE systems and how this adoption of cloud will affect their data governan...
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... this process, and it can take several months between the decision to procure hardware and the hardware being delivered, setup and ready to use. The use of cloud computing can greatly reduce this time period, but the more significant change relates to the empowerment of users and the diffusion of the IT department’s authority as pointed out by Yanosky [20]. For example, a company’s training coordinator who requires a few servers to run a week-long web-based training course can bypass their IT department and run the training course in the cloud. They could pay their cloud usage-bill using their personal credit card and charge back the amount as expenses to their employee. A similar scenario was recently reported by BP, where a group bypassed the company’s procurement, IT department and security processes by using AWS to host a new customer facing website [10].
Today, cloud services are widely used by people around the world in purpose of business, government, and personal use. With cloud services, users use resources - could be storage, computional capability, or software- from cloud service provider mediated by Internet. Doing computational work with cloud services involves a number of computers to do the large-scale works, therefore it usually called by distributed system over Internet (reference, paper?). Cloud service also offers a large-scale service where users only pay for what they use (on-demand). Therefore, companies migrate to business-to-business cloud as they don’t have to spend money building intial cost for their computational business. For instance, instead of building their own storage, network, cooling, they could just “rent” resource from cloud provider for the lower cost. Besides money benefits, cloud resources also able to be shared by multiple...
It would be very difficult to ignore the potential benefits of cloud computing, but it also brings a number of new and worrying risks. Following are typical control requirements or opportunities that businesses may need to consider when considering a move to the cloud
With the booming of cloud, a increasing number of enterprises are considering transferring the business to cloud because the move seems to help the enterprises not only to enhance working efficiency but also to decrease operating cost. However, findings indicate that under current circumstance, the portability of enterprises based on cloud is limited (Armbrust et al., 2010). Comparing to the potential expenditure one enterprise may face, the benefits it gains from may appears less attractive. Evidences in aspect of costing, efficiency and security are showed and discussed to get a conclusion.
The global technology research and consulting firm “Gartner” reports that in 2013 cloud computing services are estimated to be worth 150.1 billion dollars. This number has tripled since 2009 when cloud computing services equaled 56.3 billion dollars. The 56.3 billion dollars reported for 2009 is 21.3 percent more than was recorded in 2008. This data shows that cloud computing services are becoming an increasingly profitable and growing field. According to a survey by “Gartner”, 81 percent of company managers see differen...
To understand how cloud computing can be of value to an organization, it is important to us that we understand the cloud and its components. There are three different types of cloud computing services referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). IaaS delivers cloud computing infrastructure servers, storage, network and operating systems as an on-demand service. SaaS is about software deploying over the Internet. PaaS allows a creation of web applications without the complexity of buying and maintaining the software and infrastructure. In this paper, I will suggest that Innovartus Technology Inc should use IaaS as a replacement for PaaS because IaaS is a rapidly developing field with resources such as better services, cost variability, utility pricing model and dynamic scaling.
Cloud computing is a relatively new technology that allows data to be stored, distributed and manipulated with greater ease than ever. As described by Gurjar and Rathore (2013), the “Cloud is a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources. These resources can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load, allowing also for an optimum resource utilization” (p. 1). By moving data, documents and media to the Cloud, the potential for business efficiency and productivity increases and anyone with internet can take advantage of the benefits. As with anything, it is important to understand the risks and benefits in order to weigh whether or not moving to the Cloud is the best move for the business. Some companies, like Lavu, an iPad based point of sale system, operate solely on the Cloud. Without Cloud computing capability, some organizations would not exist.
“Does ‘cloud computing’ present additional internal control issues beyond those encountered in traditional computing?” Unaware of what is meant by “cloud computing,” this writer, after some research on the subject matter, believes that the answer to this question is YES, “cloud computing” does present additional internal control issues beyond the internal controls encountered in traditional computing. This question is answered from the viewpoint of a client company that has transferred its data to a cloud. It seems that there will always be a need for internal controls; however, where those controls are located is dependent upon the type of network infrastructure a company uses. When compared to traditional computing, cloud computing seems to have the opposite effect on internal controls of the client company: there is actually a decrease or elimination of internal controls for the company.
To cater the wide variety of users, cloud is offering three types of services. These services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) ( Mell & Grance, 2011). In IaaS users are offered the computing capabilities such as pr...
The notion of Cloud computing has not only reshaped the field of distributed systems but also undamentally changed how businesses utilize computing today. While Cloud computing provides many advanced features, it still has some shortcomings such as the relatively high operating cost
Discription: Services of cloud are used by both larger and smaller scale organizations.Cloud computing has huge advantages but it is a global phenomenon therefore it has some disadvantages. Both the Service providers and the consumers must work together to ensure safety and security of data on clouds. Customers of cloud services are in fear of data loss and privacy.This paper propose to use The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) release of a new governance, risk management, and compliance stack for cloud computing. The cloud security tools are available for free download, is meant to help organizations create public and private clouds that act accordingly with industry standards for accepted governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) best practices. The GRC stack has three components: a controls framework, a technical foundation and a questionnaire for assessing what the CSA (cloud security alliance) calls for platform-, infrastructure- and software-as-a-service
Cloud computing is a new dimension information technology (IT) and paradigm, which main aims to provide cost effective, reliable, customized and well guaranteed dynamic computing environment on “Pay-per-use” basis for the clients or end users....
Cloud computing facilitates sharing of computing and storage resources with the aim of reducing computing expenses in organizations. Moreover, cloud computing facilitates information sharing among individuals within a cloud. Despite being advantageous, data stored in a cloud is usually prone to hacking and other security issues. This paper addresses the various mitigation measures that organizations are using to ensure that data stored in the cloud is secure.
Cloud computing is convenient and user-friendly. It offers benefits such as the ease of software maintenance. No CD is required to install the resources and users do not have to worry if their software is out of date. Servers and capacity planning are also not required with Cloud computing. It does not require any equipment outlay and you do not need to guard against obsolete hardware. Cloud computing applications can also be access anywhere on your computer or mobile. Redundancy and disaster planning is also taken care by your cloud provider. With all these benefits cloud computing has to offer, many businesses have started to use cloud computing today. However there is also bound to have disadvantages.
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Experts have claimed that the services provided by cloud computing help the companies who subscribe for its use to focus on things that would differentiate them from other in this way they don’t look for its infrastructure cost or the infrastructure of the business. Advocates likewise guarantee that this system permits undertakings to get their applications up and running