Cloud Computing: Approach to Office Automation, Infrastructure Migration, and SharePoint Migration

This article discusses the approach to office automation for the staff of the Regional Garden, migrating infrastructure of IaaS vs PaaS to Public Cloud, and migration of SharePoint 2010 with the procedure of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

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Table of Contents
2. Approach to office automation for the staff of the Regional Garden:.....................................................2
3. Migrating infrastructure of IaaS vs PaaS to Public Cloud:......................................................................3
4. Migration of SharePoint 2010 with the procedure of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS............................................4
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2. Approach to office automation for the staff of the Regional Garden:
The Regional Gardens utilize the Office 365 or the G-suite to provide office automation
for the staff. As per the size of the staff working in the company, the utilization of office
automation become easy. If G-suite is compared with office 365, it is more sensible. Clients need
to access essential applications to utilize the suite. The standard programming of Office 365 can
perform some range of official work that include documentation, presentation, email, chats, off-
line syncing and many more. With both the suites, the Regional Gardens need the meet the
necessities of office automation.
A comparison being made with the use of the application of Office 365 and the application of G-
suite:
The G-suite is more sensible with regard to cost. They uses Gmail as their work email. G-
suite is provided with 10GB free space for SMBs. Based on work, the Google Apps give 30GB
free space in a reasonable cost when compare to its functionality. It has got a feature of searching
which works best for user to get easy access to old emails. The disadvantage of G suite is that the
corporate executive is mostly in need of change management but the integration between the
desktop and the mobile clients is missing. The console or access to business- friendly
administration is also missing. They have the ability to customize the change in interface which
is also limited. The G suite spreadsheet are simple collaborative for data entries. Without the
internet connection G suite is not accessible. If in any case, the user delete the data by mistake it
can be recovered for a limited time only. Office 365 is a platform of SaaS. It has online version
of Office Web Apps usually known as MS Office Suite. With this suite it also include Lync
Server, SharePoint Server, and Exchange Server. Pricing of Office 365 is bit complex to

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accommodate it with the need of the company. The most popular widely use tool for document
processing and creation is the Microsoft Word which is the most productive tool for the standard
of the industry and is also used on most of the computers. The versions of Office 365 program
allows a real-time sharing and web-based editing. In contrast to G suite a cross platform, easily
sharable and sync is used in the Google Docs. Excel is a front-runner spreadsheet application that
allow easy-to-navigate toolbar and have a feature to quickly access an indispensable budgeting
tool, data entry and financial forecasting. G suite include inroad with Sheets which is much
simpler than Excel. The Google sheet has the ability to collaborate. Excel manage formulas,
tables, filters macros and simple data list whereas the collaboration feature of the Google Sheet
outweighs the e-mailing files of Excel between different users (Dillon, Wu, & Chang, 2010).
3. Migrating infrastructure of IaaS vs PaaS to Public Cloud:
Windows Azure is a platform of both PaaS and IaaS as it make an operating system for
Windows Server and there are other features of services that are available with this platform.
With the model of IaaS the infrastructure elements such as Storage, Load Balancers,
Virtualization and Networking will be outsource to Microsoft Cloud Provider. The biggest
benefits of IaaS is to provide granular control for a core components of the infrastructure.
Globally or locally the Regional Garden can scale with ease and speed to meet the need of the
infrastructure for the individual departments or for the entire organization.
With the model of PaaS, the Regional Garden get optional building block services and a
core operating system that is hosting to run the application. The key benefits that the PaaS model
provide is the need of running an Operating System that are patched by the provider and update
the platform features and hardware (Jamshidi, Ahmad & Pah 1, 2013).

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4. Migration of SharePoint 2010 with the procedure of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
For a Regional Garden migration of SharePoint 2010 to a platform for IaaS would be a
very big step. Taking an option of cloud is also a daunting process but it is a good option as it
increase the productivity, decrease the cost and give better agility. The company when discover
the software catalog, it get access to the workload and the applications. Later, it will identify the
destination of each of the workload and then finally make the actual move to migration of
SharePoint 2010. With successful migration it will optimize the new environment for the IaaS
platform. IaaS platform gives more control to computing environment as it has flexibility in
virtualization for maintaining the cost and buying a physical hardware (Low,Chen& Wu, 2011).
The PaaS model gives a platform for programming association for the working
environment of OS and its united application. The Startup phase of the endeavors use the PaaS
advantage to change the movements with low overhead costs.
The SaaS model provide with only those application that the business is in need. The
Cloud infrastructure provider run these application to make them accessible to almost every
devices that have browser or mobile. The key benefit that the SaaS model provide is that there is
no requirement of up-front investment in the software licensing or servers. For multiple
employees there would be only one application to be maintain by the developer (Khajeh-
Hosseini, Greenwood & Sommerville, 2010).
Suggestion for migration of SharePoint2010:
Regional Garden can approach for the Active Directory on the PaaS Cloud. At point
when employees utilize the PC or workstation for collaborating with the SharePoint, an
underwritten certification would be required.

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