Business research proposal for cloud Computing System PDF

TOPIC : BUSINESS RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Project objective..........................................................................................................................3
Project scope................................................................................................................................3
Literature review..........................................................................................................................3
Common characteristics of cloud architecture............................................................................4
Justification of the Cloud service model.....................................................................................5
Advantages of cloud computing..................................................................................................5
Challenges likely to be faced when implementing cloud computing..........................................7
Research question........................................................................................................................7
Research Design and Methodology.............................................................................................8
Qualitative research.....................................................................................................................8
Approaches to reliability and Validity in qualitative research....................................................9
Sampling, and Sample Size,......................................................................................................10
Data Collection Method,............................................................................................................11
Quantitative research.................................................................................................................11
Research Instrument,.................................................................................................................13
Quantitative Data Analysis Process...........................................................................................13
Sampling and Sample Size........................................................................................................13
Reliability and Validity of Data.................................................................................................14
Research Limitations.................................................................................................................14
Research timeline.......................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................15

TOPIC: BUSINESS RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
Introduction
The application of cloud computing as a platform has started catching wind globally more so
with development of technology (Wang 2013). From multinational companies to small
enterprises have started embracing cloud services as part of their strategic operations (Weinman
2012). However there are various pitfalls which are necessary to be looked into before assessing
whether the system can be considered as a viable business platform. This research will therefore
try to evaluate the viability of cloud computing system as business opportunity to be exploited.
The business research proposal will also highlight, a proposed research methodology to be used
to assess whether cloud computing system is an investable venture, or not.
Project objective
The main objective of this business proposal is to analyze the viability of cloud computing as a
business venture. To accomplish the main objective, the research will try to evaluate two main
aspects; the first will be the potential investment areas of cloud computing, and the second will
be to analyze the potential challenges which the cloud computing system is expected to face.
Project scope
The main scope of the project is to deal with the various functionality which can be related to the
concept of the cloud computing. The access to the different features of the cloud computing and
how they can be taken advantage of.
Literature review
What is cloud computing?
Using the definition by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as highlighted by
Wang et al (2015), cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network
access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services), that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction

Common characteristics of cloud architecture
There are various systemic characteristics that form up the whole cloud computing system. These
characteristics need to be looked at before considering it for adoption and possible
implementation;
On demand service: cloud computing operates under the pretext that the consumer will access
the cloud services at any point in time without need for contacting the service provider
(Antonopoulos and Gillam 2017). This means that the system has to work as seamlessly as
possible in order to avoid any need for service support.
Loose coupling: to ensure that an on demand service is always maintained at all times, the
necessary cloud computing applications are built in a way that decreases tight component
interdependencies (Suakanto 2012). By doing so, if there is any fault in one of the components,
the system would continue working appropriately without incurring any problem in the
functionality.
Wide network access: a cloud computing system is supposed to provide a reachable wide
network access and a platform that accommodates heterogeneous users with varying cloud
computing needs (Halpert 2011).
Independent scalability: it is indicated by Suakanto (2012) that a cloud computing system is
supposed to ensure that every component of the application would be a service interface which
would be responsible for its own scalability.
Parallelization: this mainly focuses on the aspect of distributing tasks to multiple machines and
execution would be done in more than one manner (Ali, Khan and Vasilakos 2015).
Justification of the Cloud service model
A prospectors question would then be, why a cloud computing system? The cloud service system
helps the different business organizations to implement the concept according to their
requirement and how they want to use the service. There are basically three types of cloud
service models which are available that are explained below:
• Software as a service: the organization would be getting access to the specialized software suits
which are hosted in the infrastructure of the cloud platform. These types of infrastructure are

available from various client devices through the interface of the client such as the web browser
(example web based mail) (Almorsy, Grundy and Müller 2016). The organization would not
have to take care of the underlying architecture and can directly focus on major activities which
are related to the software related aspect.
• Platform as a service: the main advantage which the organization will achieve form the concept
of the platform as a service is that they would be able to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure
applications which are created and acquired using the concept of programming language and
tools that would then be provided by the cloud providers (Kaya 2018). The platform in this
context also gives the provision of load balancing and concept of sculling in the manner which is
transparent. The organization in this context has the overall control over the application
(Almorsy, Grundy and Müller 2016).
• Infrastructure as a service: the main advantage which the organization will gain from the
concept is that it gives direct provisioning of the aspect of storage, processing, network and other
fundamental resources related to computing where the customer would be directly able to run
and deploy software’s (Ali, Khan and Vasilakos 2015).
Advantages of cloud computing.
Scalability concept: (Avram 2014) indicates that the cloud service is elastic in nature which
basically means that the resources can be scaled up and scaled down according to the need of the
organization. Sometimes it can be seen that the need of resources are high at that particular time
it can be scaled up and on the other hand when the need is less it can be decreased accordingly.
Operational benefits: There are different types of operational benefits which can be achieved
from the concept of the cloud and with the mitigation of the business to the concept of the cloud.
Some of the aspects which can be stated with the approach of the operational benefits are stated
below:
Flexibility and mobility aspect: The main focus point which is related to the concept of the
flexibility is that the access to the cloud can be achieved from anywhere (Linthicum 2018). In
most of the situations the data of the user are stored in the concept of the cloud computing which
mainly means that the organization or the user can directly access the data from anywhere.