Introduction Cloud Computing into Business Unit Code: BSBSMB412Introduce Cloud Computing into Business Operations

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Cloud Computing into Business
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Task 1: Present business computing resources and usage...................................................2
Task 2: Cloud computing services to meet business requirements.....................................3
Task 3: Development of plan to introduce cloud computing..............................................7
Task 4: Support implementation of the plan........................................................................8
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................9
References..........................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Cloud computing has brought several advantages for business. It has ability to reduce
cost and increase satisfaction of the customers. In addition, features like auto-scaling, updating
software automatically as well as maintaining are the powerful advantages that every business
can obtain using cloud computing. Present study deals with reviewing present computing
resources and use, future computing requirements and potential enhancements to business
operations with staffs. In addition, types of services provided by cloud computing and their
respective costs are analyzed in the current study. A business case for deploying cloud-
computing services and short-term and long-term introduction of cloud computing are presented
in the present study.
Task 1: Present business computing resources and usage
Chang, Kuo and Ramachandran (2016) stated that with the assistance of virtualization
technology and enabling more use of computing resources businesses, it is required now start
sharing datacenter infrastructure along with computing infrastructure, software and platforms in
businesses. Innovations of business management applications such as customer relationship
management and enterprise resource planning lead businesses to adopt cloud service
applications. In addition, with rapid growth of technology, present businesses require
implementation of enterprise level software that can be possible with Software as a Service.
Salesforce, Marketo and Hubspot become popular resources and applications of the model. The
method is cost-effective as well as efficient for customers as well as service provider (Avram
2014). On the other hand, customers desire to receive hassle free management, security and

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maintenance of the services in efficient way that can be achieved by deploying cloud-computing
applications.
In future, merging of infrastructure, platforms and software into a single computing
resource is assumed as one of the major business requirements (Dawson et al. 2016).
Furthermore, business-computing resources blur with the resources of consumer computing and
computing intelligence proliferations to sensors will be business requirements in future that
require effective training to the staffs or team members to use these efficiently.
Moreover, current business organizations are looking for scalable usage of the
applications (Da Silva et al. 2015). It assists to pay for the computing resources only that are
used. In addition, managing spikes based on demands without permanent investment in computer
hardware is one of the major requirements of current days’ business that can be achieved by
implementing cloud-based applications in business operations.
Task 2: Cloud computing services to meet business requirements
Cloud computing assists businesses to be more efficient and save costs for hardware and
software required for business. There are mainly three types of cloud services are used such as
Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. IaaS helps in
minimizing total costs of ownership as well as capital expenditures and users need to pay only
for the services that are required. In addition, it helps to evaluate the enterprise-grade IT
resources as well as infrastructures (Hashem et al. 2016). On the other hand, with the help of
PaaS Solutions, organizations are not required updating the software infrastructure. The
organizations face lower risks as they do not have to create upfront investment in software and
hardware. Deploying SaaS Solutions can assist to make rapid scalability, accessibility from any