Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing for Businesses

Running head: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CLOUD COMPUTING
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing for Businesses
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Project Objectives..................................................................................................................3
3. Project Scope..........................................................................................................................3
4. Literature Review...................................................................................................................3
Importance of Cloud Computing in Businesses.....................................................................3
Advantages of Cloud Computing in Businesses....................................................................6
Disadvantages of Cloud Computing in Businesses................................................................9
5. Conclusion............................................................................................................................12
6. Reference List......................................................................................................................14
7. Appendix..............................................................................................................................17
Appendix A..........................................................................................................................17
Appendix B..........................................................................................................................17

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1. Introduction
Cloud computing is the specific part of information technology, which is responsible
for allowing omnipresent accessing to all the shared system resources1. The extremely high
level services are frequently and well provisioned with the least managerial effort and hence
this technology is accepted by all users. In simple words, cloud computing is the easiest mode
of transferring data or information over the connection of Internet from any part of the world
to other. This cloud computing always relies on the resource sharing for achieving economies
of scale or coherence, which is same as public utility2. The third party clouds are responsible
for focusing on the main business processes and not on spending of huge amount of resources
on maintenance or other computer infrastructure. Cloud computing helps the businesses in
avoiding or in minimizing the costs of the infrastructure of information technology. The
applications could be easily run, without any type of complexity and also could be run faster3.
The maintenance is very low and improvises manageability. There are various advantages
and disadvantages of cloud computing.
The following literature review focuses on a brief discussion on the advantages and
disadvantages of cloud computing in businesses. The literature review will highlight the
project objective and project scope by outlining the main processes. Moreover, the
importance of cloud computing in any business will be provided here.
1 Dinh, Hoang T., Chonho Lee, Dusit Niyato, and Ping Wang. "A survey of mobile cloud computing:
architecture, applications, and approaches." Wireless communications and mobile computing 13, no. 18 (2013):
1587-1611.
2 Arora, Rachna, Anshu Parashar, and Cloud Computing Is Transforming. "Secure user data in cloud computing
using encryption algorithms." International journal of engineering research and applications 3, no. 4 (2013):
1922-1926.
3 Fernando, Niroshinie, Seng W. Loke, and Wenny Rahayu. "Mobile cloud computing: A survey." Future
generation computer systems 29, no. 1 (2013): 84-106.

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2. Project Objectives
The objectives of this project of advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing in
business are as follows:
i) To understand the various advantages of cloud computing that would be useful for
any business.
ii) To understand the several disadvantages of cloud computing that would be harmful
for the business.
3. Project Scope
The scope of this project is finding out the benefits or demerits of cloud computing
within any business or company. Moreover, it will be helpful in knowing the delivery of
services through Internet.
4. Literature Review
Importance of Cloud Computing in Businesses
Cloud computing is the successful delivery of all types of computing services like
servers, databases, software, storage, analytics, networking and many other on the Internet4.
The organizations that are eventually offering all these services are known as the providers of
cloud or simply cloud providers. They charge for providing services of cloud computing on
the basis of their usability5. In today’s world, most of the popular organizations have taken
the technology of cloud computing within their business. The most significant uses of cloud
computing in any particular business are as follows:
4 Garg, Saurabh Kumar, Steve Versteeg, and Rajkumar Buyya. "A framework for ranking of cloud computing
services." Future Generation Computer Systems 29, no. 4 (2013): 1012-1023.
5 Xiao, Zhen, Weijia Song, and Qi Chen. "Dynamic resource allocation using virtual machines for cloud
computing environment." IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems 24, no. 6 (2013): 1107-1117.