Advantage and Disadvantage of Cloud Computing

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................3
2. Project Objective.............................................................................................................3
3. Project Scope...................................................................................................................3
4. Literature review..............................................................................................................4
5. Research Questions..........................................................................................................7
6. Research Design and Methodology.................................................................................7
7. Research Limitations.......................................................................................................9
8. Time Schedule (Research plan).....................................................................................10
9. Conclusion.....................................................................................................................10
10. Reference List..............................................................................................................11
11. Appendix......................................................................................................................14

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1. Introduction
Cloud computing becomes a buzzword of recent years and businesses are switching every
day. There are several advantages of cloud computing such as cost savings, reliability,
manageability and strategic edge. Cloud computing provides improved as well as simplified IT
management and maintaining capabilities by central administration of resources. However,
disadvantages of cloud computing makes some issues while dealing with cloud. The issues like
its downtime, security, vendor lock-in and limited control are the major disadvantages of using
cloud computing. Hence, it is important to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using
cloud computing. The present paper discusses project objective, project scope, literature review,
research methodology and conclusion that will be helpful to conduct the research in proper way.
2. Project Objective
 To critically impact the use of cloud computing
 To find out the advantages for using cloud computing
 To evaluate the disadvantages of using cloud computing
 To recommend solutions for overcoming the disadvantages
3. Project Scope
With rapid growth and usage of cloud computing, it becomes important to evaluate the
advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing. Business and organizations often
minimize annual operating cost through using cloud computing (Alzahrani et al. 2014). The cost
of cloud storage is approximately 3 cents per gigabyte in order to store data internally. In
addition, users can avail extra cost savings, as it does not need internal power in order to store
information remotely. However, it is important to be careful when using to move a document

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into cloud folder. In addition, various cloud storage services have particular bandwidth
allowance. Hence, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing, it will be
helpful to highlight the features and functionality of cloud computing along with the role of
cloud computing in an IT organization (Hameed et al. 2016). The study will allow the reader
evaluating all possible solution for mitigating the issues related to the technology. In addition,
the project will be helpful to extend the provided advantages of cloud computing for making the
process more effective in future days.
4. Literature review
Concept of cloud computing:
Cloud computing is considered as an information technology paradigm that enables
access to the shared pools of configurable system resources as well as higher-level services. It is
provisioned with minimal management effort over the internet (Gutierrez et al. 2015). In
addition, cloud computing relies on the sharing resources in order to achieve coherence along
with economies of scale. In addition, third party cloud enables the organizations focusing on core
business instead of increasing the resources on infrastructure and maintaining the computer.
Cloud computing organizations are consuming compute resource like virtual machine, storage on
application like a utility. Cloud computing boasts various attractive advantages for business as
well as end users.
Cloud computing services are private, public or hybrid. Private cloud services are
generally delivered from a business data center to the internal users. The model offers versatility
as well as convenience of cloud (Hashem et al. 2015). Thus, preserving the management, control
as well as security are common to the local data centers. In addition, the internal users may be