CRV P/L Business Proposal

Running head: Business Proposal 1
CRV P/L Business Proposal
Name of the Student
Name of the Institution

Business Proposal 2
CRV P/L Business Proposal
Task 1: Cloud Computing Platform
Cloud computing technologies are increasingly growing to become a critical
consideration when developing new applications. As a computing ‘paradigm’ that enables the
virtualization of computing platform, the technology comes in a ‘stack’- PaaS, IaaS and SaaS.
The internet-hosted computing applications and services rely on powerful servers and large data
centers to host web applications (Kulkarni, Prasad, & Jayant, 2011). The unprecedented growth
in the consumption of cloud services is partly due to clients’ perceptions of cloud- faster and
cheaper applications that require no upfront and operational capital.
CRV P/L is a new startup company that aims at delivering an application that wil handle
its huge (expected) computing processes. To choose which type of cloud computing application
to deploy, whether public, private, hybrid or on-premises legacy implementation, such factors as
platform features in relation to organizational needs, pricing, security and support should be
considered.
Public cloud computing provides computing resources off-site. The environment has
highest level of efficiency than other clouds but too vulnerable to security attacks. It should be
chosen only when standardized workload is to be used by many people, and when there is
organizational need for developing and testing new software applications. In a private cloud
computing model, both infrastructure and services are maintained on private networks. They
have greatest level of security and infrastructure although individual organizations are required
to develop or purchase their own software applications, a demand that significantly reduces cost
savings.

Business Proposal 3
The best clouding computing model for the company would be hybrid model. This type
of cloud computing application combines some aspects of private and public types of cloud and
allows organizations to keep their business aspects in a more efficient and controlled
environment. The company requires to build some accounting and front-ended website which
means some aspect for public cloud will be needed. Security must be taken seriously and
therefore more aspects of private cloud computing must be sought.
Task 2: Risk Assessment
a) Access and control risk
Hybrid cloud computing is associated with many risk regarding data privacy,
confidentiality, integrity and availability of services (Mosher, 2011). The decision to move
organizatioonal data to a cloud environment means that this data is pout under ‘absolute’ control
and custody of cloud service provider (CSP). This ends up in a compromised situation over who
actually owns data, who accesses it and who has controls it.
b) CSP’s internal segmentation
Many CSPs are likely to offer cloud computing services to many to many organizations.
Poorly structured and configured hybrid applications and the underlying data architecture risk
jeopardizing organizations data in that it can be made available to other organizations.
c) Data ownership
There has been unusual debate between CSPs over data ownership. Some of them claim
ownership of data and have the authority to redistribute it at their won will (Tanimoto, et al.,