Effect of Cloud Computing on Companies: A Case Study of Meta Soft Ltd.

This report discusses the effect of cloud computing on companies, with a case study of Meta Soft Ltd. It covers office automation, infrastructure, IaaS and PaaS, and challenges faced while implementing cloud computing.

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Executive Summary
This report is going to discuss the effect of cloud computing on the companies. For this report,
the concerned company is Meta Soft Ltd. The story will talk about the how Meta Soft ltd will get
affected by the implementation of cloud computing. In addition to this , company needs
consultation so that the company can convince their staffs for office automation. Also, the report
will give a brief detailing of the infrastructure, for the company. Finally, the story will discuss
the issues which can be encountered while implementing this infrastructure.
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
IaaS and PaaS..............................................................................................................................5
Some basic features to consider when looking for IaaS are:...................................................5
Advantages of IaaS are as follows:..........................................................................................5
Advantages of PaaS are :.........................................................................................................6
PaaS Characteristics.................................................................................................................6
Difference between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS –.................................................................................8
Reason for migrating to PaaS......................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
With growing technologies, everything is becoming quite easy to access. This is
benefiting companies hugely. One of the best inventions in technology is Cloud computing; this
model enables everywhere, suitable, provides network access on-demand and shares a pool of
configured computing resources, that can be speedily provisioned and released with less
management effort. Meta Soft Ltd. is a software development company, works for the company
across New Zealand and Australia. The company is thinking to shift some of its computer
systems to cloud. The reason behind the companies decision is to increase the flexibility and
responsiveness on the market and also to earn some savings for maintaining their ICT
infrastructure (Hein & New, 2017). The main focus of the report is how the Meta soft ltd will
implement cloud computing in their organization. With this, different approaches required to
implement office automation for staffs in the organization. Further, the report will discuss the
infrastructure used by IaaS and a platform provided by PaaS.
Discussion
Office Automation implementation leads to an increase in productivity of the
organization. Many plans ensure successful OA in the organization. Meta Soft Ltd. is required to
implement office automation for their staffs (Hashizume, et al.,2013). For this, several
approaches will ensure successful implementation of OA in the Meta Soft Ltd. Generally, OA
strategy needs to be executed and formulated through the following approaches:
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 Firstly there is a need to acquire confirmation from the upper management team.
 The plan should be done in respect with both long and short term.
 Building a huge range of OA tools
 The organizational drive is needed to be built to implement OA tools successfully.
For this implementation, the Meta Soft needs to plan with the corporate. The objective of OA
should be synchronized with corporate. As different views regarding the same goal will lead to
the technical, organizational, political and personal problem. This involves high level
management with critical analysis (Masse, 2017).
Secondly, the Meta Soft Ltd. should keep it in mind that the plan must be based on both
short-term and long-term objectives. From the technical point of view, the plan should create a
program of well-matched evolution and values which will parallel allow new software ,networks
and equipment, to co-exist with the existing system (Kavis, 2014).
The benefit of implementing OA is that it helps to increase the flexibility and responsiveness
and also increases the productivity. in the market. This evolutionary technological plan should
try to capitalize on current equipment. But to this , one should be aware of that , to implement
this in the long term can lead to counterproductive , and limiting the OA companies to lose the
flexibility and responsiveness in front of the users.
According to me , I will prefer to implement this system on a short-term basis , so that it does
not lose the flexibility I the working place. I will recommend Meta Soft Ltd. to implement office
automation for their staffs in the short term as this will increase the productivity and also acts
responsive to users (Hashem, et al., 2015).
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(Fig1: Cloud computing)
IaaS and PaaS
The infrastructure of IaaS is as follows network, operating system, servers, through
virtualization technology. These servers are provided to clients through an API or a dashboard.
An IaaS client has total control over the entire infrastructure. IaaS provides the same type of
capabilities and technologies and also there is no need to manage all this data physically. IaaS
client can access all the data through a virtual data center in the cloud. In respect to PaaS . The
clients of IaaS are responsible for maintaining and managing aspects such as runtime, OSes ,
applications , data and middleware(Freet, et al., 2015). However, the IaaS provider manages the
hard drive, networking , storage . Some offer more than this including database and message
queuing.
Some basic features to consider when looking for IaaS are:
 Resources are accessible as a service
 The cost of the platform depends on consumption varies
Advantages of IaaS are as follows:
 This is the most flexible cloud computing model
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 Allows easy automation for deployment of networking, storage , servers, and processing
power
 Based on the consumption hardware and resources can be purchased
 Allows the client to get the complete control over the infrastructure
 Is extremely scalable
Whereas on the other hand, PaaS is like for SaaS, in SaaS software is being delivered on the
internet , whereas PaaS provides a platform for creating software. PaaS platform is being
delivered over the net and allows developers to freely concentrate on software building without
worrying about the operating system , storage , software updates or infrastructure. This allows
businesses to plan and create applications, with special software components in PaaS.
Advantages of PaaS are :
 App development with the help of PaaS is simple and this also comes under budget , thus
cost-effective
 PaaS also provides automation towards the company policy
 PaaS is highly scalable
 Highly accessible platform for the people who works with cloud
 It gives the ability to create, modifying , customizing apps to developers without tension
 The amount of coding required in this platform reduces to a great extent
 This allows easy migration to the cross model
PaaS Characteristics
 As this is built on virtualization technology , it is easily scalable as per the companies
requirement.
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 Provides a huge range of services to support development, deployment and storage of
apps
 The same developed application can be accessed by numerous users
 Databases and Web services are integrated
The Meta Soft Ltd. can decide which one to choose among both while migration. Meta Soft
can opt for PaaS when are multiple developers are working on a particular project for
development o if includes other vendors too, as this provides great flexibility for the entire
process. PaaS is also useful if Meta Soft wish creates an own customized application. This model
is cost effective. Whereas, IaaS is advantageous for startup or small companies. So this will not
require much money or time to be spent on trying to create software and hardware. IaaS will be
beneficial for Meta Soft Ltd . only when they want to have complete control over the
infrastructure and applications and are looking to buy only that much which is required. As Meta
Soft is a developing company(Bruneo, 2014) , IaaS is useful as there is no need of commitment
to have specific software or hardware , one can change according to their need. It is also helpful
when the company is not sure about their demands as there is a lot of flexibility .
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(Fig2: Security Control in the three models )
Difference between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS –
In the cloud computing model ,each model offers its specific characters tics and
functionalities, and this is crucial for the organization to recognize the differences. Depending on
the need of the organization, three of the models can be distinguished (Dinh, et al., 2013). If an
organization is looking for storage of software on cloud based model then they should migrate to
SaaS, for a platform that will allow creating customized applications, PaaS is needed or requiring
complete control over the organization, and then they need to move to IaaS. Irrespective of the
cloud chosen, the future of the technology and business are depending on migration to the
cloud , and it is essential to be informed appropriately.
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(Fig3: Control flow over the pyramid)
Reason for migrating to PaaS
According to me, Meta Soft Ltd. should migrate to PaaS . As this will help to develop the
new application and allows editing in future if needed. The main reason for which the Meta Soft
ltd should migrate to PaaS is that it allows for higher-level programming with considerably
reduced complexity; these increases the effectiveness of overall development of the application,
as this has been built in self up-and-down ramping structure resources; and thus enhancement
and maintenance of the application becomes easier.
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(Fig4: Model of IaaS, SaaS and PaaS)
Issues and the ways to Overcome
With migrating to PaaS cloud , the Meta Soft Ltd . may face some challenges. There
remains a possibility of an increase in price when moving to large scale . Also sometimes the
control over the infrastructure reduces , lack of operational features may appear . Ways to
overcome the challenges as the PaaS offers development of the application, application design,
testing and deployment, also provides security, database integration, scalability, storage,
persistence, state management. Apart from this, PaaS offers monitoring, reservation and
workflow management.
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Conclusion
From the above report it can be concluded that there are several cloud computing models
available in the market. The organization needs to choose the model according to the need and
requirements of the company. There are several ways for a organization to migrate to cloud
server . The three cloud models are : IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Meta Soft ltd. Company is a developed
company, so it is suggested that it will be beneficial if they migrate to PaaS model of computing.
This will help them to maintain the flexibility and will also help to create and modify the app.
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