Cloud Computing Application in Regional Garden Business Operations

This report explores the application of cloud computing within Regional Gardens Ltd, a company managing various gardening enterprises. The report details the company's need to migrate from its existing data center to a cloud platform to manage increasing consumer data, enhance security, and ensure data recovery. It explains the concept of cloud computing, highlighting its application resilience, data backup, and disaster recovery capabilities. The report further discusses the advantages of migrating to a cloud platform, including reduced costs, improved data access, and enhanced security. It also compares different cloud architectures such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, ultimately recommending IaaS for Regional Gardens due to its control over virtual machines and application security. The report concludes that adopting a cloud platform will streamline operations, reduce expenditure, and improve overall business success for Regional Gardens.

Application in Regional Garden
Cloud Computing

Contents
• Introduction
• Explanation of the concept of cloud computing
• Why to migrate to Cloud platform
• Explanation of different cloud architectures
• Difference between the cloud architectures
• Selection of the most suitable cloud architecture
• Advantages of the IaaS architecture
• Disadvantages of the IaaS architecture
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Regional Gardens Ltd Company runs numbers of
related gardening enterprises. It has large display
garden which is completely open for the public. It
also has a nursery which sells plants and other
gardening equipments to the willing consumers. Not
only this but also a garden planner is there who, gives
advice to the consumers about gardening.

Introduction (contd.)
• The company has a small data center to manage the
selling and buying information in details. With
changing time phase, the number of consumers of the
company is also increasing accordingly, who are
required to be managed properly. In order to manage
them the company is require changing their
operational platform from the exiting one to the cloud
one. The current architecture used by the company
has the following features.

Explanation of the concept of cloud
computing
• Cloud computing is referred to as a
technology of distributed data
processing system that hold certain
scalable data resources.
• It provides high level service to
multiple consumers by using the
application of internet service.

Explanation of the concept of
cloud computing (contd.)
It also gives three of these below
mentioned features to those
companies who are willing to
adopt this application. The
features are as follows:
• Application resilience
• Data backup
• Disaster recovery

Why to migrate to Cloud
platform
• The company is required to change their existing
platform to cloud platform because it will give the
company a wide storage area to store their
confidential information.
• It gives high security to the storage to avoid
unwanted data access.
• During any operation if any information found to be
lost then that can be recovered easily due to the
availability of data backup and disaster recovery
capability.

Why to migrate to Cloud platform
(contd.)
• It also reduces the total cost of the business and
operational functionalities.
• It is not at all time consuming than the previous
platform
• It gives wider range of data access ability to the users
• None of the unauthorized users will be access
information from the data server .

Explanation of different cloud
architectures
• The 3 different cloud architectures are as
follows:
• IaaS
• PaaS
• SaaS

Difference between the cloud
architectures

Selection of the most suitable
cloud architecture

Selection of the most suitable cloud
architecture (contd.)
• Among three of these architecture
the Regional Gardens should
migrate to the IaaS platform.
• After analyzing the background of
two of these cloud architectures, it
can be said that the company
should adopt the IaaS platform, for
improving their business
performance. It also helps to extend
the structure of current datacenter.