Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Cloud Computing and Cloud Migration

Running Head: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION
Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Cloud Computing and Cloud
Migration
Name of the Student
Name of the University

1EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION
Project Closure: Final Blog Entry
This research project has been about cloud computing and cloud migration process, a
detailed plan of which has already been developed. This is the final part of the project report i.e.
the project closure phase where the entire project will be reviewed. The review process will be
undertaken by taking back up from literature that has been used previously in this project.
Cloud computing is a new online technology that has taken the computing world by
storm after it was developed and released for use. The basic idea of the cloud computing is to
store huge amount of data in an online non-physical storage space instead of physical storage
devices like CD, DVD, flash drives and others. Moreover, with further advancement of cloud
computing technology, the cloud can now also be used for data processing and management
making the technology an essential requirement for all large and medium business organizations
that involve the working of a large number of employees. Cloud computing services can
significantly reduce the overall operation time for any business related activities by increasing
the computing efficiency and also removes all the errors that might be caused by the manually
managed system. Hence, all big organizations nowadays are slowly migrating to cloud by
replacing their existing operational structure and framework. This not only increases the overall
efficiency and accuracy of the internal and external operations, the migration also reduces the
need for much physical space as well as maintenance costs as the cloud does not require any
specific maintenance procedure. However, the onetime cost of the migration is significantly high
but after migration is completed, the organization can start earning a significant margin of cost
benefit.

2EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION
According to Andrikopoulos, Strauch and Leymann (2013), cloud computing is a very
effective technology that significantly reduce the overall operational costs as well as increase the
efficiency of the operations significantly. Furthermore, the organizations can cut their overall
operational costs by removing unwanted physical storage devices, decrease the total number of
employees and others. Furthermore, there are no limitations of cloud computing in terms of
storage space or management capacity. Apparently, cloud provides unlimited space for storing of
data and manages and processes data much more accurately and effectively than manual
management.
However, Smith (2015) stated that in spite of the massive success of the cloud computing
technology in the business world, it has a large number of limitations and issues that have not
been completely solved yet. As per the author, since the entirety of the data in the cloud is hosted
and stored online, it is much easier for the hackers to break into the server and steal confidential
and high value information. Data in the physical storage devices like flash drives can be
protected from the attacks by using strong firewall in the system such that the hacking entities
cannot bypass the system to reach the connected physical storage drive. However, for cloud
computing, no such firewall exists as the software within the system has no control or effect over
an entity that is not located in the system.
According to Jamshidi, Ahmad and Pahl (2013), the security of data stored in cloud must
be considered with top priority before completing migration into the cloud. Migration means the
entire data and information stored by the organization in the server will be migrated to the cloud
through online transmission. This is very much popular among the business organizations that
frequently migrates the data into the cloud through the online transmissions. The uploaded data
may contain sensitive information like business strategies, personal information of the clients,