Cloud Migration: Selecting the Best Provider and High Level Plan

Running head: NETWORK AND SECURITY
Network and Security
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Various Cloud Providers........................................................................................................2
Recommendation....................................................................................................................4
High Level Plan for Cloud Migration....................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Cloud computing can be simply defined as the hypothesis of information technology,
which is used for enabling the omnipresent access of all the system resources that are
configurable. Moreover, the services that are of high level can also be executed as well as
provisioned with the help of this cloud computing with extremely less managerial effort
(Dinh et al., 2013). This is done on the Internet. This particular practice of cloud computing is
solely reliable on resource sharing for the successful achievement of the scale economies and
coherence. The most significant advantage of cloud computing is that it helps to reduce the
costs of an IT infrastructure.
The following report outlines a brief discussion on any particular company that has
decided to migrate all of their information technology functions to cloud. The CEO of this
company has thus taken the decision for migrating their shared folders and email to a secured
cloud with zero downtime. This report will discuss about the safe and secure cloud providers
and will also provide recommendations. Moreover, a high level plan for the organization will
be stated here.
Discussion
Various Cloud Providers
The CEO of the organization has decided to migrate their shared files and email from
their current infrastructure to any specific cloud infrastructure. They are unsure of the
selection of the cloud infrastructure for their organization. There are various cloud providers
that provide virtualized infrastructures to their clients (Arora, Parashar & Transforming,
2013). These virtualized infrastructures help the clients to outsource their computing
resources and equipments like storage, servers, services and networking. Moreover, these