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Executive Summary
The major objective of this report is to understand about the necessity of cloud computing in
the Australian software organization of Atlassian Corporation PLC. According to the analysts
of cloud computing, this particular technology enables the organizations in avoiding as well
as minimizing each and every up front expense of IT infrastructures. Cloud computing is also
responsible for allowing the enterprises in getting up of applications so that they could run
faster with improvised manageability or lesser maintenance. It even enables the teams of IT
to more promptly adjust these resources in fulfilling the fluctuating as well as unpredictable
demands. Major innovations and creativity within such distributed computing or
virtualization or even the improved accessibility to higher speed Internet connectivity for
having increased interests in cloud computing. This report has identified Salesforce.com or
SaaS solution appropriate for Atlassian for securing their products and services from any type
of external threat or risk. Moreover, the implementation process of Salesforce.com is also
provided in this report.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Business Process Explanation or Application........................................................................4
3. Cloud Deployment Requirement............................................................................................7
4. Cloud Computing Solutions and Justifications....................................................................10
5. Cloud Computing Solution Issues in Ethical, Governance, Maintenance and Security......13
6. Implementation of the Proposed Cloud Computing Solution..............................................15
7. Conclusion............................................................................................................................17
References................................................................................................................................19
Appendix..................................................................................................................................22

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1. Introduction
Cloud computing could be referred to as the on-demand accessibility for various
resources of computer systems, mainly for computing power and data storage. It does not
require direct active management by the respective user and hence cloud could easily and
promptly allow any kind of data transfer without involving complexities (Rittinghouse &
Ransome 2017). The major clouds even consist of such functions, which are being dispersed
on various distinctive locations from every centralized server. When this link of this cloud is
being checked with the user and is being checked as much close, it could be designated any
edge server.
The service providers of cloud could substantially screen, keep up and then gather
confidential data regarding firewalls, counteractive action framework, information streaming
and intrusion identification within the respective networks (Hashem et al. 2015). The
concepts of this time sharing system became extremely popular through remote job entries.
Full time sharing solutions were being made available with all popular vendors like DEC and
IBM and the major platforms that were involved were Multics, Cambridge CTSS and UNIX
ports. The respective model of data centre, in which users have submitted jobs to the
operators for running over IBM mainframes was substantially predominant (Botta et al.
2015).
The following report would be providing a brief discussion on deployment of cloud
computing in a popular Australian organization, Atlassian Corporation PLC. It is an
Australian enterprise software company, which eventually develops various products for the
respective software developer, content management and project managers. This specific
organization has become popular for its unique application of issue tracking, known as Jira
and even for its team collaboration or the wiki product, called Confluence (Atlassian.com.

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2019). They are serving more than 135000 customers and hence cloud would be an important
and significant requirement in the business. Subsequent cloud computing solutions and issues
for ethical, governance, maintenance and security would be provided in the report with
details.
2. Business Process Explanation or Application
Business process management in cloud computing could be demonstrated as the
utilization of tools, which are eventually delivered as the software services in a network
(Whaiduzzaman et al. 2014). The cloud business process management business logic is being
implemented over an application service as well as business data residing within the storage
of cloud. This particular business process of cloud helps in workload resilience and helps in
reducing redundant resources for ensuring resilient storages and even for keeping the
workloads running of the users, mainly in global regions. The computing resources are being
measured at this granular level and allows these users in paying only for various resources,
used by them. The cloud providers are extremely competitive in nature and they continuously
expand the services for differentiating themselves (Chen et al. 2015). It eventually led to the
public IaaS providers for offering much more than the storage instances and common
computing resources.
A server less computing allows the developers in creation of codes so that the cloud
providers could load and execute the code in response to the real world events and for this
reason the users do not need to consider regarding the instance and server aspects of cloud
implementation (Ali, Khan & Vasilakos 2015). The respective users have to pay only for
several transactions, which the function could execute. This public cloud even provides itself
effectiveness towards processing of big data that could demand for excessive computing
resources for smaller durations. These providers of cloud have also responded with the

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services of big data like Google BigQuery for the larger scaling data warehouses to process
huge data sets.
The next crop for emerging cloud technology as well as service related to machine
learning and artificial intelligence (Tao et al. 2014). Such distinctive technologies help in
building machine understanding, enabling systems for mimicking human understandings or
even responding to the changes in confidential data for providing advantages to businesses.
Security has always been a top priority in implementing cloud computing technology. The
businesses that contemplate cloud adoption can eventually share the underlying hardware
infrastructures within several clients since public cloud is one of the multi-tenant
environments. The entire environment majorly hassles for the abundant isolations within
every logical computing resources (Wei et al. 2014). The subsequent access to the public
cloud storages is then guarded by the credentials of account login of every customer.
Several companies bound by the complicated regulatory obligations as well as
governance standards are hesitant for placing workloads and data within the public cloud for
theft or loss of data (Chen 2014). The resistance to data management often gets faded since
this logical isolations have proven to be scalable and has an addition of data encryption as
well as several tools of access and identity management with improvised security in the
cloud. The business process management is a basic discipline within operational
management, where individuals could utilize numerous methodologies for discovering,
modelling, analysis, measuring, improving, optimizing as well as automating the business
procedures. A proper combination of all such methodologies that are being utilized for
managing the organizational business process for cloud computing is termed as cloud
computing business process management (Almorsy, Grundy & Müller 2016). The respective
procedures could be repeatable and structured as well as variable in nature. Although, these