Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks for Business Organizations

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Cloud computing is an IT concept that deals with integrating and storing data in a
centralized platform that can be accessed by authorized users over the internet. It is not in a
way that data is obtained from a traditional computer hard drive. Cloud computing represents
the infrastructure of the server over the internet. Local storage and computing are achieved
when a data is stored or program is run from the hard drive. This feature directly helps users
to get access to data at any time and from anywhere. The fact that there are hardware servers,
which are dedicated to a residence, it does not actually mean there is cloud computing. Some
of the business organizations do not deploy cloud computing models. Data needs to be
accessed over the internet or at least data needs to be eventually synchronized with the
information over the internet (Xiao, Song and Chen 2013).
Cloud computing can be considered to be very much beneficial for business
organizations which are small. This is due to the fact, that through the use of cloud computing
they would be able to access various technologies, which was not possible for them
previously due to high cost. The concept is very much advantageous for them because they
can start competing with other small businesses or even with the big business organizations.
It is very much on the cheaper side to use the concept of cloud computing than to buy other
technologies in order to achieve operational efficiency. Huge expenses, which are implied for
some technical person to come and fix the technical faults, would cut down drastically. Multi-
application cloud services can be used in accordance with the needs of users and the needs of
organizations as well. Cloud computing services usually provide basic update periodically so
the users are removed from the haptic feature of updating system occasionally.
Cloud computing mainly refers to a way how the service of information technology is
managed and consumed. Different concepts that are taken into consideration are computer
power, storage, applications and network infrastructure. The acceptance of cloud computing
concepts in different departments within organizations may lead to direct changes regarding
organizational boundaries and business processes. One of the biggest advantages of moving
to the cloud computing infrastructure and services is that the IT staff can be focused on other
aspects within the organization because cloud computing platforms remove the effort, which
is needed to deliver IT infrastructure (Katyal and Mishra 2014).
There are different cloud computing models, which can be incorporated by different
organizations according to its needs and requirements. Infrastructure as a service model is a
union between the host of the cloud and resources. A couple of the service related to cloud
computing represents both the area of physical infrastructure and management layer. On the
other hand, taking into consideration, different cases the management layer is incorporated
into IaaS solutions that directly delivers physical infrastructure and increases the business
value. IaaS solutions can be very much appropriate to map out the system infrastructure but it
does have a limited access area when relating t9oo the concept of developing applications.
The software as a service provides a base of a web application that allows independent
software vendors to use internet for the concept of delivering their applications. Many
applications that rely on the concept of cloud clouding achieve business operational
efficiencies (Sharkh et al. 2013). The aspect of security is attributed to the service providers
and can often be related to services like customer management and account management.
One of the most important elements of cloud computing is resource pooling and on-demand
service, as the service which is related to cloud computing is offered by different providers
who can combine different aspects and offer a solution that mainly covers all the computing
stack which is related to the system (Ergu et al. 2013).