Advantages and Disadvantages of PaaS and IaaS Platform

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Advantages and Disadvantages of PaaS and IaaS Platform

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DATA MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD2Data Migration to the CloudThe cloud has recently become one of the most recent developments that are being embraced by a large number of organizations. These organizations consider migrating their services and operations from the local services to the use of the cloud in order to solve a largenumber of issues that affect them when they use the local servers. Among others, the issues that occur involve aspects like the integration of their operations, the time it takes to carry outtasks and process and automation of other services when the automation software to use are not in place. The cloud provides a solution to all these issues, through the available software which it provides to its clients and environment of running this software. Organizations are however facing a unique challenge when they are in the processes of leaving their traditional systems and migrating their operations to the cloud. These challenges are brought by the needto ensure that the hosting of the operations takes place effectively and that the organization manages to move the data that it has been using from its local services to the cloud servers. Without this aspect, it becomes very difficult to establish effectiveness on how the operationsare carried out. Being among such organizations, Webb’s is being faced by a similar problem. The solution to the issue exists in two major options. The organization can decide to utilize an IaaS approach when making the migration to the cloud. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model requires the organization to move completely from any form of local operations to the cloud form of operation. It involves taking the complete organizational computing hardware to the cloud. This hardware among others include networks, storage, system management andall servers. When all these aspects are moved from the physical operations to the cloud, the organization ceases to have a need for a well-established data center, cooling, and other hardware aspects that are important to consider.

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DATA MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD3The second option that the organization can take in order to make the migration involves the use of the platform as a service (PaaS) option. In this option, the organization only obtains platforms and databases as a service. The utilization of any of these two options will help the organization manage to move its operations from being locally based to being cloud based. A comparison of the impact that any of these options would have to Webb’s organization is therefore appropriate to make before the final decision on the most appropriate option to take is made. Differences between IaaS and PaaSThe infrastructure as a service, option of cloud computing help organizations to have infrastructure provided to them. This is infrastructure inform of servers and storage that they may need. This provision is different with when an organization is using a Platform as a Service (PaaS). PaaS is at a higher level since, after the provision of the infrastructure where the organizational operations will be taking place, the providers also provide other environment based and important software services like the operating systems. With this regard, therefore, the first main difference between these two options is the fact that an individual begins establishing his or her system from scratch when using an IaaS, but he or she is provided with environment based software when using a PaaS. The other major difference between these two organizations is the fact that an organization has much more control when using the IaaS service, compared to when he or sheis using a PaaS platform. When using an IaaS, an individual is required to select and install his or her own operating systems and any other important software products that are necessary. The individual has a significantly wide capability to control the services compares to when the platform in use is the PaaS platforms. With this regard, therefore, an organization

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