Integrated Professional Skills in the Digital Age - Assignment

Title: Integrated Professional Skills in the digital age
Date of submit: 03.06.2019
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Count words: Around 1500

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss about cloud computing and cloud storage.....................................................................1
Different kinds of clouds with their suitability to current business............................................2
Differences between privacy and security..................................................................................3
How do you achieve your cloud or organisation’s cloud to be private and secured ..................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Digitalisation can be defined as an electronic technology that generates, processes and
stores the data in two aspects such as positive or negative. In addition digital transformation is a
process in which several digital techniques i.e. cloud computing is used so that business process
can be modified and requirements of customers can be fulfilled in desired manner. This report
will covers cloud computing, storage and several kind of cloud with its suitability to current
business. Along with it, comparison between security and privacy will also discussed in this
report.
MAIN BODY
Discuss about cloud computing and cloud storage
Cloud computing is defined as the delivery of several services by using internet. This
system also includes several applications and tools like servers, software, database, data storage
etc. This name is given because informations and data is stored in a specific space or cloud.
Several organisations like Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc. are the main providers of this kind of
storage in which they allows the users to store their important data or files on distinct servers and
they can see or download this data by using internet. By using this, users can freely access their
necessary informations from anywhere or it can be said that they have no need to going
anywhere for accessing these informations (Bertino and Ferrari, 2018). It consists of heavy
lifting that is a part of processing and crunching far away from device which is carried by
individuals. It also assist the managers of organisations in performing their duties without
installing heavy data base systems within the workplace. Therefore, it can be said that internet
becomes cloud which have allowed the users in accessing their private and personal informations
from anywhere across the world.
Cloud computing services are referred to a system of networks that supplies hosted
services in two ways such as private or public. Service related with public cloud are provided to
customers on the basis of fees whereas, private cloud services are available for limited number of
customers only. In addition, it can be defined as a service model which allows the users to
manage, secured or maintained in a specific place or field that provides access to users that they
can store their informations and data at monthly rate. Even if gigabyte cost is driven down
radically then operating expenses will be high which can restricts the organisations or users for
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using this kind of services. Whereas, in cloud storage, data is being stored in several logical
pools and if users wants to access the information then they have to pass several tests. These data
is managed into several servers by the service providers main reason behind this is to protect the
valid information in a protective manner so that if user wants to access the nit will be accessible
and available for them. Therefore, different cloud storage providers have duty to keep the data is
accessible and available so that users don't get frustrated while they wants to access the
information (Radenkovic, 2016). Several business organisations in a marketplace take lease or
buy storage capacity from these service providers so that important data such as customer's
informations, stakeholder reports, share capital, several bonds etc. can be stored effectively.
Service related with cloud storage can be accessed by users through web service application
interface. This system is mainly depends on virtualised infrastructure in which users can access
their informations easily from the storage which is available in broader cloud computing storage.
Different kinds of clouds with their suitability to current business
This will benefit business organisations in reducing total capital expenditure and
ownership cost. It will allow companies to pay for only those services for which they wish to
pay. Beside this, it has access to enterprise grade infrastructure and IT resources due to which
firms are able to access needed data without spending high amount. This help business
organisation in performing their business activities by achieving high results (Marinescu, 2017)
In present scenario, cloud computing is becoming a standardised platform for business
organisations because through it they can easily store necessary informations of organisation
effectively. It also supports the organisations in managing their software, IT infrastructure and
hardware resources. This technology also benefited the organisations in utilising their resources
and applications which are managed by third party without any problem or difficulty. These
systems are usually established for business purposes. There are different cloud systems are
available in marketplace which can be used by the organisations as per their suitability. One of
them is Infrastructure as a service which is also called lowest level of cloud computing service.
It also assist the organisations in delivering configured hardware and software services with the
help of virtualised software service. These services are provided by several cloud computing
providers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. which provides benefits to the business
organisations in saving their expenditures and ownership costs. Apart from that, it also allows the
firms to pay for only those services for which they want to access. In addition, it also assists the
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organisations in securing their data or information without spending heavy investments on this
function which leads the organisations in gaining sustainability at marketplace.
Platform related to the services is identify as an another kind of cloud which is advanced
than IaaS. Along with this, for offering infrastructure is also consider as a tupe of solution stacks
and computing platform. In such cloud, information technology infrastructure is given as a
operating system as well as graphic user interface. This type of cloud is used by those
organisation whose have requirement to create test and collaborate for particular applications.
There are some examples of organisation which used such type of cloud such as Google app,
Microsoft Azure and so on. Therefore, with the help of such cloud, company can easily update
its infrastructure software regularly. It will also assist them by reducing risk of lack of capital.
Used of this capital in investment in hardware and software. Due to this, activities of an
organisation executed in a cost effective way and it will become more easy for them to
accomplish their goals and objectives within given time period.
Differences between privacy and security
Both terms i.e. privacy and security are interconnected with each other but sometimes
users can't make difference between them and understands same. Whole modern era of business
environment is related with technology because each user wants to get services with proper
security. Whereas, they also tend to use privacy in securing their informations. Due to which
privacy and security both terms are using widely by the organisations. Apart from that, privacy
and security both are different with each other because security is defined as the protective
measures which are taken by users or organisations in order to protecting their data from hackers,
cyber criminals etc. whereas, privacy is a freedom of persons from unwanted things and
intrusiveness. In other words, it is a state in which users are prevented from secret surveillance
and unwanted attention. Security is a safeguard which is used by the persons for making safe
their informations and other private things. Whereas, privacy is a right of person which is used
by them to make them safe from the unwanted things. Main aim of security programmes to
protect all assets and resources of business organisations whereas, privacy programmes mainly
focuses on securing informations of employees and organisations. Therefore in last, it can be said
security can be gained by persons without using privacy but it is not possible to achieve privacy
without security (Steinfeld, 2016).
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How do you achieve your cloud or organisation’s cloud to be private and secured
The use of cloud based storages and data processing tools has increased due to which
business firms are facing various privacy issues. Business firms in this present century is focused
on controlling their data so that the other external parties or services provides cannot access it
directly without the permission from companies. In order to protect the data from external
sources, business firms are using the distributed approach through which the firms can divide the
cloud database in several segments which are available to the clients through cloud storages.
Companies can also use the in-memory RDBMS with row level data encryption for getting a
private cloud storage (Marinescu, 2017). The firms can also encrypt their data from end to end
encryption so that the data can be secured in an effective manner. The business firms can encrypt
the sensitive data which are not used every time due to which they could not be transmitted over
a network. The business companies also needs to have enforced and defined data deletion policy
in order to secure the data of cloud storages in an effective manner.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above discussed report that cloud computing and cloud
storage both are important for business organisations as it helps them in storing their large
number of data without any difficulty. It is also concluded that privacy is a term which is used
for securing the entity or individuals from unwanted activities or functions whereas, security is
related with safeguarding data properly so that any rival company can misuse the data for
gaining competitive edge. Private and secure cloud systems providing both kind of facilities to
their customers so that any kind of loss not be faced by them in future.
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