Cloud Computing: Advantages and Disadvantages

This assignment analyzes cloud computing, highlighting its benefits as a fast-growing technology offering reliable software and hardware delivered via the internet. It delves into the advantages of scalability and ease of use for individuals and businesses. However, the analysis emphasizes the significant security concerns associated with cloud computing, particularly data misuse by malicious insiders and the challenges of data location transparency. The assignment concludes by urging developers to prioritize security improvements to address these growing concerns and ensure the continued adoption of cloud technology.

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Advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Research question............................................................................................................................2
Research objectives.........................................................................................................................2
Literature review..............................................................................................................................2
Cloud computing.........................................................................................................................2
Advantages..................................................................................................................................4
Disadvantages..............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Cloud computing is one of the most important and widely used system nowadays. This
system has helped the organizations to manage their data easily without any confusion
(Rittinghouse, & Ransome, 2016). Cloud computing is a system that uses a system of servers
supported on the internet, which helps the organization to store and manage their data on a single
sphere. This system of data storage has made the data storing process in the organization much
faster than using local servers (Wei et. al, 2014). This research focuses on the advantages and
disadvantages of devising cloud computing in the business.
Research question
 What are the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing in business?
Research objectives
 Analyze the advantages of cloud computing
 Analyze the disadvantages of cloud computing
 Study the overall impact of cloud computing on business performance
Literature review
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is characterized in today’s world as a modern computing infrastructure
for tge next generation. With the advent of cloud computing it has helped the users to use the
platforms of other cloud users at a very low cost. Whereas, cloud computing is also used in
mobile where it is known as mobile cloud computing. This system was introduced to facilitate

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the increasing demand of mobile users (Dinh et. al., 2013). Mobile computing is recognized as a
system in which storage and processing of data takes place outside the mobile device.
According to Rittinghouse, & Ransome, (2016), cloud computing are of various type n
each type has its own meaning and importance. Such vast categories of computing are present
due to the wide spread of internet. The various types of cloud computing services such as
communication-as-a-service, instant messaging, voice over IP and infrastructure as a service.
These cloud computing system is developed by IT professionals. Cloud computing uses
federation in its system, which is of four types. There is a compliance standard attach to the
process which increases the security of the data even more (Ahmed & Hossain (2014).
Further Arora, Parashar, & Transforming, (2013) has described cloud computing as a
system which helps in transforming information. Through this process, the information gets
migrated to the cloud and gets stored there. The increasing demand for such system has changed
the working environment of the IT professionals in a great way. Cloud computing allows the user
to access a lot of pooled files which is stored and secured by a third party with the help of the
internet (Arora, Parashar, & Transforming, (2013).

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Figure 1: Cloud computing system
Source: (Ahmed & Hossain, 2014)
Advantages
According to Dinh et. al., (2013), cloud computing has helped to reduce the cost of
businesses and thus increased their scope of profitability. This is because the cost of mobile
application got reduced after the introduction of this system. They got a chance to experience a
large variety of services at comparatively low cost. Cloud computing is not only cost effecting
but also allow better collaboration. Moreover there are three levels in cloud computing system
such as federation, presence and privacy which helps in securing the data of the users
(Rittinghouse, & Ransome, 2016).
Arora, Parashar, & Transforming, (2013) has explained that cloud computing has a lot of
advantages to the users such as agility, low cost, interdependency, and scalability. Along with

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these there are other benefits as well that is contributed by this system such as high efficiency in
the scheme, easy retrievability of the data and others. These factors have made cloud-computing
system a useful system for all the users. Additionally it can be said that cloud computing helps
the user to perform complex and massive scale computing task in a much faster way. This
system has eliminated the disadvantages caused by traditional systems that was expensive, huge
and required a lot of space and software (Hashem et. al, 2015). It is one of the most suitable
systems of data storage in this growing world as the volume of data is increasing day by day. The
increasing use of social media has also increased the usage f cloud computing system worldwide.
(Hashem et. al, (2015), has also pointed out that data has many components such as volume,
variety, value and velocity. Cloud computing has managed to allow the data stored in one place
by handling all the four factors of big data. This makes it a better storing system than the
traditional storage system.
Figure 1: four Vs of huge data
Source: (Hashem et. al, 2015)

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Disadvantages
Security is the most crucial issue while developing any system, which enables data
storage. This is also the case in cloud computing as it helps to store a huge amount of data under
one system (Hashem et. al, 2015). However, cloud has received many security problems in
recent times. The data stored in the system has been misused by the malicious insiders, which
lead to a criticism of this system. Other problems that arise in cloud are segregation, reliability,
capacity and others. This puts a negative impact on various types of cloud users such as
academic users and enterprises (Arora, Parashar, & Transforming, 2013).
Ahmed & Hossain (2014) is of the view that cloud-computing system has faced many
security issues, which are dynamic and vast. Among these, the location of the data is the most
crucial security issue. Moreover, transparency of the location is also a threat in this system. Thus,
the modern system of data storage has some advantages and comes with certain disadvantages,
which needs to be looked.
Conclusion
From the above analysis it can be deduced that cloud computing is one of the fast
growing technology in today’s world and has been supported by many users because of the
benefits it provides. It has formed a reliable software and hardware that is delivered via internet
and data centers. The system offered by cloud has become a widely used process that can easily
perform a large scale ask in an easy manner. These facilities offered by the system have
motivated a lot of individuals and business enterprises to use cloud computing in their daily task.
However, along the advantages the system also comes with certain challenges recently which has
put a lot of doubt on the usage of this system. The most important challenge faced is the security

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issues, which can put back many consumers from using cloud computing to save their crucial
business data. Thus, they should work on improving the security matters than is being faced by
the system recently to cope up with the challenges.

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References
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