Cloud Computing

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Matthew CunninghamSelina SambarMaria Skorcz

Users

• Personalo iCloud

Multiple applications Multiple Devices

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Users

• Schoolso Professors

Sharing Resourceso Students

Sharing Documents, Presentations

Users

• Small Businesseso Low Technology Costso Spend more time on innovationo More focus on business and start up ventures

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Users

• Large Businesseso Payments managed by third partyo Fewer IT employees to payo Lower employee training costs

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You already use a form of cloud computing every day.

SaaS – Software as a serviceCRM – Customer Relationship Management

• Sales Cloud• Service Cloud• Chatter

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031?page=0,1

Utility computing

• Online storage• Amazon

o "Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), in which customers pay for compute resources by the hour, and Simple Storage Service (S3), for which customers pay based on storage capacity"

• Joyent

Web services in the cloud

• Related to SaaS• Delivers services rather than applications

Enterprise private cloud

• Ideal for businesses with strict privacy restrictions

• Companies can leverage cloud methodologies, tools, and prices depending on their needs

Potential Issues with the Cloud: Information Security

• "Your data on my hard drive"

• Encryption as a solution

• Browsers as interfaceo Restrictionso Access control and passwords

http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/05/security-in-the-clouds-part-2/

More Potential Issues with the Cloud

(as suggested by the National Institute of Standards and Technology)

• Computing Performance

• Cloud Reliability

• Economic Goals

• Compliance

http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911075

Benefits outweigh the risks,if precautions are taken

• Economy of scaleo Shared Infrastructure = Shared Cost = Shared

Information

• Reduced spending on technology

• Timely

• Accessible

http://www.verio.com/resource-center/articles/cloud-computing-benefits/