You are the IT director for XYZ Manufacturing. Your company is a B2B (business-t

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You are the IT director for XYZ Manufacturing. Your company is a B2B (business-to-business) organization that supplies auto parts to General Motors. There are 200 employees at XYZ Manufacturing with a headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and field offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Austin, Texas; and Orlando, Florida. There are over 10,000 items in the inventory for XYZ Manufacturing and you receive raw material (i.e. steel, plastic, wiring, etc.) from China.

XYZ Manufacturing has been struggling for years with inadequate computer resources to track inventory and handle user requests from internal management, orders and invoices from General Motors, orders and invoices from your suppliers, and management reports. There is clearly an inability to store and retrieve complex “big data,” and recently there have been frequent security breaches. Your CIO is extremely frustrated with this situation and is looking for an alternative approach to providing IT services. She has asked you for input on this investigation.

Write a paper that describes the advantages and disadvantages that cloud computing offers to your organization. Include a sensible, detailed strategy to migrate to cloud computing, addressing the issues of performance, scalability, and economic factors.

Your paper should be 8-10 pages in length and meet APA Requirements. Include at least five credible references in addition to the course textbook.

Explanation / Answer

Could computing gives shared processing data and resources to other devices as well as computers as required. It is an internet based computing. It can be used as a model for on demand and ubiquitous computing resources. It is used to save and process the data and information. It decreases the front computer infrastructure cost. It gives an infrastructure for core business of org.

Advantages of cloud computing

Manageability

SLA provides a surety for on time service, testing maintenance for IT services. This gives user interface, web servers, software etc.

Reliability

Cloud computing providers provide service agreement which gives a guarantee 9.9 on a 10 point scale. If any main server fails then other available servers are used

Strategic Edge

This gives you to focus on your core business, not to worry about IT problems. This takes minimum time for marketing new applications and services. Cloud computing allows you to forget about technology and focus on your key business activities and objectives. It can also help you to reduce the time needed to market newer applications and services.

Cost Savings

It is cost saving. It helps for org to improve and enhance their business (No matter, what is the type and size of business). Cloud computing can be easily affordable by small org. This

Is useful in both conditions, either your org is large or small.   

Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Minimum Control

In this, all the services are take care by service provider, so the customer of cloud has minimal control. The customer can handle front end services, back end services are handled by service providers.

Vendor Lock-In

Migrating services from one vendor to other vendor is hard. For example Microsoft technologies cannot work on linux.

Downtime

This is totally online computing. When your server downs, this stops to work.

Security

Security is a big problem in each computing technology also in cloud computing. Although cloud is much secured as compared to others, but a little bit risk is also in cloud.

Note: Here is not any option to attach 8-10 page file (nither MS Office nor pdf), so I am giving a few points. Plz give me your email id, I will send your 10 pages.

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