Comprehensive Analysis: Cloud Computing's Role in Business Operations

This report delves into the realm of cloud computing, meticulously examining its influence on the modern business landscape. The research encompasses a comprehensive analysis of cloud computing's advantages and disadvantages, assessing its role as an IT solution. It explores the project objectives, scope, and provides an in-depth literature review, including conceptual frameworks and definitions. The report also investigates cloud computing services, research questions, and research design and methodology, discussing qualitative and quantitative research approaches. It addresses research limitations, provides a timeline, and concludes with a synthesis of findings. The study aims to help businesses understand cloud computing's potential for risk reduction, profit enhancement, and its alignment with business requirements, offering recommendations for system improvements.

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Research method and proposal
Name of the student
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Project Objective.............................................................................................................................4
Project Scope...................................................................................................................................5
Literature Review............................................................................................................................5
Conceptual Framework....................................................................................................................6
Figure 1- Cloud Computing Model.................................................................................................6
Definition and Origin of Cloud Computing.....................................................................................6
Cloud Computing Service................................................................................................................7
Research Questions..........................................................................................................................9
Primary Question.............................................................................................................................9
Secondary Questions.......................................................................................................................9
Research Design and Methodology.................................................................................................9
Qualitative Research........................................................................................................................9
Quantitative Research....................................................................................................................10
Research Limitations.....................................................................................................................11
Time Schedule...............................................................................................................................11
Figure 2- Timeline.........................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12

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References......................................................................................................................................13
Appendix........................................................................................................................................14
Figure 3- Cloud Computing Adoption Model...............................................................................14

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Introduction
The following we bought is based on the technique of Cloud computing which is a
Martin day information technology system used in the story and processing of the variety of
information without intervention manual labor over the internet. The different business
organizations can access the information from the privately owned or third party best loud
service solutions that are presenting some other locations. The aim of the research is to derive the
advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computer software implementation and integration
into the business environment. The following research will help the readers to gain an idea about
all the different processes about the cloud computing software send the technology on with the
cloud computing heads the business to get you out there daily activities. The technological
advancements in business can take reward but you do lazing the concept of load computing.
Businesses getting transform to smooth and sophisticated farms you the farms with a help of
Cloud computing. How about from processing and storage the cloud computing technology also
have provides the secured platform for all information of the organization.
Project Objective
The primary objective of the report is to analyze and find out the impact up cloud
computing in the day business environment (Chang 2015).
The secondary of the following report are;
 To determine Cloud computing as a tool for reducing the risk and increasing the profit of
the business.
 To find out the benefits and disadvantages of Cloud computing in modern day business.

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 To determine and analyze weather the cloud computing system meets the requirements of
the business unit.
 To provide a proper recommendation on the renovation and maintenance of the system
that will help to manage the business more effectively.
Project Scope
The scope of the project is huge and it caters to the need of almost all startup companies
to the big business organizations as per the requirements of the business and the operations cost
of the business. The project always has a specific time period for its completition and thus it has
some special limitations;
 Short time period
 A short and unspecific literature review was provided to the researcher
 The absence of primary source of information was critical as the researcher had to
heavily depend on secondary source of information
 Differences in the requirements of different companies also increased the scope of the
research.
Literature Review
In this section of the report the researcher has in detail reviewed the use and the pros and
cons of cloud computing software in the business environment. Cloud computing has a variety of
advantages that helps it to be one of the most sought after solutions in the modern business
enterprises. The researcher has also discussed about the cons of cloud computing that is believed
to be a major hurdle in the business environment (Bitam et al. 2015). To make the research more
reliable and accurate the researcher has also added the safety measures that are needed to be

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followed while using the cloud based computing systems. The major reasons for the addition of
such different types of elements and factors related to the cloud computing services makes the
research more effective and flawless.
Conceptual Framework
Figure 1- Cloud Computing Model
Source- (Hashem et al. 2015)
Definition and Origin of Cloud Computing
According to Leyman, cloud computing refers to the use of a network that is based
on some remote servers hosted over the internet. The software is used for storage of the
information in different places that are accessible by the users. The places include hard drives,
laptops, desktops and other computing devices used by the service users (Rittinghouse and
Ransome 2016). The main use of the cloud computing devices lies on its feature to both store
and process the information in the internet itself. Maintaining a cloud based software system in

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the company helps the management of the company to keep a proper database of the company
for using it in different ways.
The following technology was first used in as early as the 1990’s when a handful of
technical experts and some of the technical executives of Compaq Computers hatched the idea of
the cloud computing (Fernando et al. 2013). Compaq developed the cloud computing system
which was just capable of storing the information and did not have the provision for processing it
further. The passage of time increased the use of cloud computing and gradually the technology
became an integral part of the total system. The additional features of cloud computing was
developed as cloud computing was slowly integrated into using the applications, management of
the information of the organization, providing a secured process of data storage and many more
as such (Arora et al. 2013). The advancements in the technological process slowly forced the
other leading information technology companies to adopt the new system software for their use.
The main advantage of using the cloud computing devices as well as software is to retain the
information within the organization. This helps the organization to access the important
information at any point of time.
Cloud Computing Service
Some of the main uses of cloud computing services are;
1. Infrastructure as a service and Platform as a service- The companies prefer to use a pay
per use scheme for using the present infrastructure of the company. This helps the
companies to save on the cost of investment to acquire, maintain and manage the
different IT infrastructure. On the other hand PAAS is used to increase the speed
development on a ready to use platform to deploy applications (Almorsy et al. 2016).

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2. Private cloud and Hybrid cloud- There are a lot of different incentives that are provided
by the companies to use the cloud system. However among the vast majority of such
different systems two of the main situations are generally preferred by the organizations
(Li et al. 2013). One of them being the private cloud and the other being the hybrid cloud.
The test and development process may be limited in time but the adoption of the hybrid
system helps to test the application workloads which in turn helps to provide the
application of the workloads and therefore provides a initial investment that could have
been useless on the failure of the workload.
3. Test and development- The cloud computing system must be used in a test and
development environment to test its effectiveness before integrating in the system of the
company. The test environment consists of installation and configuration of your
platform, setting up the environment with the help of the physical assets, significant
manpower and timing. The evolution of cloud computing has been helpful for the
company in a number of ways (Wei et al. 2014). The cloud computing environments
helps the organization to smoothly carry out the daily operations of the business.
4. Analysis of the large information- The large scale information is stored and processed
with the help of cloud computing environment (Chang 2015). The retailers and suppliers
extract the data that are derived from the buying patterns of the consumers. Social
networking platforms are providing analytics on behavioral patterns that the
organizations use to derive the meaningful information that is needed for running the
business smoothly (Bitam et al. 2015).

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5. File Storage- As mentioned earlier file storage is one of the most important use of the
cloud computing system. File storage helps the organization to store all the necessary
documents in the system for both present and future references.
Research Questions
Primary Question
What is Cloud Computing and what are its advantages and disadvantages?
Secondary Questions
1. Do you think cloud computing to be a successful IT solution for the companies in the
coming future?
2. Is the reduction of manual labor a positive change or a negative change?
Research Design and Methodology
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research is the type of research that is involved in the use of unreliable and
unstructured information sources and information, collection of different methods and careful
observations. It also includes the conduction of the research interviews, performing surveys and
collecting information from some documents. Basically it is that kind of research that can be
said to be a theoretical form of research involving a detailed analysis of the necessary
documents. The readers will be well aware of the origin of the research, the date of occurrence,
the topic of the research and the collection of the research methods. Some of the steps in this
particular kind of research include;
A. Deciding the research topic

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B. Preparation of the research
C. Preparation of the research Questionnaire and giving special attention to it
D. Conducting the literature review of the research
E. Evaluating the need for such a research whether it is needed or not
F. Identifying the sample size
G. Preparing the methodology of the research or the methods or procedures on how the
research is completed
H. Analysis of the information
Sampling refers to the collection of data from a selected group of participants on whom
an interview is conducted. The opinion of these selected few is taken into consideration while
preparing the research. The researcher has selected a sample size of 60 individuals from
different organizations consisting mainly of employees and managers.
Quantitative Research
Quantitative research on the other hand refers to the use of objective statistical
measurements involving complex mathematical and numerical analysis of the information
collected through the sampling procedures. The steps in such a research are;
1. Identification of the research problem
2. Review of the literary sources
3. Analyzing the theoretical framework
4. Methodology
5. Discussion of results
6. Conclusion

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Research Limitations
The research conducted by the researcher has been successful in achieving all the main
aims and objectives of the research. However a little bit extra effort could have produced a much
better research. The shortage of time has compelled the researcher to shorten the scope of the
project as many of the necessary elements of the project topic has been omitted. The use of
limited number of references, depiction of less number of advantages and disadvantages,
omission of minute details from research journals have took a toll on the project as it could have
made the project more compact in nature. There is also an absence of important statistics like
proper estimation of the number and segmentation of cloud computing frameworks of the
different organizations. The research thus has lots of ground for improvement.
Time Schedule
Selection of Topic
Confirmation of the topic
Preliminary Research
Selection of the Research
Design
Research Proposal
27-Jul 1-Aug 6-Aug 11-Aug 16-Aug 21-Aug
Figure 2- Timeline
Source- (As created by the author)

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Conclusion
As mentioned earlier the researcher has been able to meet all the aims and objectives of
the research. The researcher has provided all the information regarding the modern technology
which has been helpful to make the research one of the best in the business. The advantages and
disadvantages has also been discussed. A thorough analysis of the project will help the readers to
get a transparent idea on cloud computing, its uses and cons. The specific and detailed
information has helped the research to be specific and detailed in nature which can be easily
referred for future use.

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References
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Hashem, I.A.T., Yaqoob, I., Anuar, N.B., Mokhtar, S., Gani, A. and Khan, S.U., 2015. The rise
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Appendix
Figure 3- Cloud Computing Adoption Model
Source- (Hashem et al. 2015)
The following figure is the cloud computing adoption model which shows the different
levels of the cloud computing framework.