Implementing a Cloud Solution in an Enterprise

Running head: IMPLEMENTING A CLOUD SOLUTION IN AN ENTERPRISE
Implementing a cloud solution in an Enterprise
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Definitions of Cloud Computing Models, Architectures and Technologies.........................3
2.2 Technical capabilities and Business Virtualisation and Cloud Computing...........................5
2.3 Applications making use of Cloud Computing.....................................................................6
2.4 Requirements during deployment to Cloud...........................................................................8
2.5 Appropriate Cloud Computing Recommendation and Reasons............................................9
2.6 Discussion of ethical, governance, maintenance and security issues recommendation......10
2.7 Implementations for proposing of Cloud Computing Recommendation............................11
3. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14

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1. Introduction
The application of solutions based on the cloud platforms are discussed as highly critical
in the recent times. The cloud-based business solutions would help the business in leveraging the
rights of the company to make use of efficient use of the various offered services. Different small
and medium-sized business would be able to deliver different forms of solution to their clients in
a quick and effective manner. The migration to cloud computing environments would be
considered as one of the most important challenge (Rittinghouse and Ransome 2016). The use of
such kind of technology would be helpful for providing a paradigm that would be based on “on-
demand” payment methodologies. The cloud based services would be extremely helpful for
bringing in a range of features that could be summarized as: rapid elasticity, broad network
access and expandable, resource pooling and on-demand self-service.
The report discusses about the implementation of cloud-based services in Crown Resorts
Limited. The organisation is considered as the largest gaming and entertainment groups in
Australia. The company also operates two entertainment complexes in Crown Perth and Crown
Melbourne. The organisation has a need for implementing cloud computing platforms within
their business offerings (Kaloxylos et al. 2014). They would leverage their services to the cloud
platform in order to bring in efficiency within their business processes. The business has an
emerging need to back up their data to the cloud platform. This would help them in securing their
data from emerging security threats and thus provide efficient business services.
The report thus discusses about the impacts of cloud solution within the global
environment. The report would thus address that issues that would be faced by an enterprise and

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thus different solutions would be evaluated. The different forms of maintenance and security
issues based on the implementation of the cloud platform would also be taken into consideration.
2. Discussion
2.1 Definitions of Cloud Computing Models, Architectures and Technologies
The different enterprises who would be making use of cloud computing technologies
would need to understand the different models defined by cloud computing. The different cloud
computing models that are present are discussed as:
1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – The IaaS can be defined as the cloud computing
architecture that can be also described as an outsourced service. An IaaS based service provider
would be able to deliver a pre-installed and configured software and hardware with the help of a
virtualized interface (Madni, Latiff and Coulibaly 2016). The benefits of IaaS is that this form of
cloud model would reduce the entire cost of ownership. The enterprise making use of such kind
of service would make use of the service as per their need of the choice.
2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) – The PaaS based cloud computing model would be
similar in the form of the IaaS model but it would present a more advanced format of cloud
computing model. The IT infrastructure that would be backed up by the PaaS based service
would be able to gain a good form of graphic user-interface, advanced operating systems and
efficient programming languages (Yangui et al. 2016). The benefits of such kind of service is
that these services could be afforded at lower cost. The deployment of such kind of technologies
would be in a simplified version.
3. Software as a Service (SaaS) – The SaaS based cloud model would be fully
functional in the form of web-based applications. These kind of services would be provided