Cloud Computing: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Future Trends

This report provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing, exploring its advantages and disadvantages. It begins by defining cloud computing and highlighting its benefits, such as reduced costs, enhanced collaboration, increased flexibility, and improved business continuity. The report then delves into the drawbacks, including security concerns, platform inconsistencies, and potential for data unreliability. It references key studies that discuss the impact of cloud computing on businesses, including the advantages for small and medium-sized businesses. The report also examines the integration of cloud computing with mobile devices, particularly in telemedicine, noting the benefits and challenges associated with this integration. The analysis incorporates direct quotes and paraphrased information from the provided sources to support its arguments, concluding with a balanced perspective on the technology's potential and limitations.

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Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing:
Cloud computing is an advanced computing technology that is revolutionizing the way
organization leverages computing resources. cloud computing is the process of storing, managing
and processing of data with a network of remote servers that are hosted on the internet rather than
considering local server or personal computer which is often the case in the traditional computing
process.
Attaran, M. (2017). Cloud computing technology: Leveraging the power of the internet to
improve business performance. Journal of International Technology and Information
Management, 26(1), 112-137. Retrieved from
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/
&httpsredir=1&article=1283&context=jitim
Cloud computing has several benefits to the business or any individual that has access to this
technology. However, it is important to note that, it has several drawbacks too.
According to Attaran (2017), “Cloud computing is an easy to adopt technology with simple
and the latest architecture. Cloud computing dramatically lowers the capital investment in hardware
and software infrastructure for smaller and medium size companies.”
The authors have described in details that cloud computing provides some significant
benefits which includes:
 Access to powerful computing resources without investing huge in infrastructure
 Easier resource management
 Improves collaboration

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 Enhanced business continuity planning through cloud storage while providing security to
system and data, especially data that are critical to the business.
 Providing context to the business that helps in minimizing downtime and reducing loss of
productivity for the business.
However, the authors also mention that advance features of cloud computing might create
security gap as well as human errors. Due to this it provides certain drawbacks to the business as
well which include platform inconsistency, network vulnerability, data unreliability, and business
discontinuity which requires to manage these drawbacks properly so that it is possible for the
business to maximize the benefits of the cloud computing.
Gheorghe, M. (2014). Mobile cloud computing for telemedicine solutions. Informatics
Economical, 18(4), 50-61. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279233278_Mobile_Cloud_Computing_for_Telemedicine
_Solutions
Cloud computing is being extended for advanced mobile computing and one of the areas
where mobile computing with cloud integration is providing significant benefits is research for
telemedicine. According to Gheorghe (2014), “Integrating cloud computing with mobile devices,
some of the most important constraints applied to mobile computing are being overcome and the
noticeable ones include battery life and hardware with less computational power. There are being
resolved by moving the most complex operations and computations in the cloud”. Some of the
benefits of the mobile cloud computing are:
 Increasing lifetime for mobile battery which is a significant constraint in applying mobile
cloud computing
 Increase data storage capacity
 Increase data reliability and data efficiency

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 Multiple services from different providers are easily integrated
However it has some disadvantages too and these include:
 Requires more power due to Wi-Fi interference
 less computational capacity and availability
 security and privacy issues due to data exploitation and hacking
Attaran, M., & Woods, J. (2018). Cloud computing technology: A viable option for small and
medium-sized businesses. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 13(2), 94-
106. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327756016_Cloud_Computing_Technology_A_viable_O
ption_for_Small_and_Medium-Sized_Businesses
According to Attaran & Woods (2018), “Cloud computing can bring big positive changes to
SMBs and is redefining the way SMBs do business. Those changes have been realized by many of
today’s SMBs owners”
Advantages include:
 Reduced Costs
 Greater Integration
 Enhanced workplace Collaboration
 Increased Flexibility
 Enhanced Reliability
 Enhanced Competitive Advantage
 Reduced Carbon Footprint
Disadvantages include:

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 Lack of Sufficient Resources
 Lack of Time to Implement New Initiatives
 Costs management is complex
 Security/Data Control is difficult to execute

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References:
Attaran, M. (2017). Cloud computing technology: Leveraging the power of the internet to
improve business performance. Journal of International Technology and Information
Management, 26(1), 112-137. Retrieved from
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/
&httpsredir=1&article=1283&context=jitim
Gheorghe, M. (2014). Mobile cloud computing for telemedicine solutions. Informatics
Economical, 18(4), 50-61. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279233278_Mobile_Cloud_Computing_for_Telemedicine
_Solutions
Attaran, M., & Woods, J. (2018). Cloud computing technology: A viable option for small and
medium-sized businesses. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 13(2), 94-
106. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327756016_Cloud_Computing_Technology_A_viable_O
ption_for_Small_and_Medium-Sized_Businesses