Impact of Cloud Computing on Apple's Business: A Detailed Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of cloud computing on Apple's business operations. It begins with an abstract and table of contents, followed by an introduction that outlines the research aims, objectives, questions, and hypothesis. A thorough literature review examines the existing knowledge on cloud computing and its influence on organizations, specifically focusing on Apple. The research methodology section details the data collection methods, including the use of questionnaires. The findings and analysis section presents the collected data, supported by tables and graphs, to identify key themes and insights. The discussion section interprets the findings in relation to the literature review. The report concludes with recommendations, suggestions for further research, and a reflection on the study's outcomes, highlighting the positive and negative impacts of cloud computing on Apple's performance and productivity.

Cloud Computing and
Apple
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ABSTRACT
Technology is evolving at fast pace so it si necessary for organisation to make use of recent
technologies for making sure that they sustain within the market for longer duration of time
frame. Cloud computing is a practice for making use of network of remote servers which are
hosted vai internet for storing, managing as well as processing data instead of personal computer
or a local server. Cloud computing is being utilised by organisations for delivering their services
but this dissertation will emphasise on impact that will be created by this on firms. Introduction
is initial section of this dissertation which involves research aims, objectives and questions.
Furthermore, literature review is conducted by making sue of distinct books, journals, articles
and different sources which are relevant to this study. Research methodoly is next section in
which different methods are utilised for collection data and quantitative method is being utilised
for doing this. Next part is findings and analysis in which different themes were created for
analysing the information. As a primary source of information questionnaire is being utilised and
as a secondary source literature review is used. Both the sources have assisted within carrying
out analysis of data related with cloud computing and its impact on performance of apple. At last
conclusion and recommendation have been furnished for determination of outcome of study that
has been attained.
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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
Topic: “Cloud Computing and Apple”............................................................................................4
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................4
Overview of research...................................................................................................................4
Background of the research.........................................................................................................4
Problem statement.......................................................................................................................5
Research aim................................................................................................................................5
Research Objectives.....................................................................................................................5
Research Questions......................................................................................................................5
Statement of Hypothesis..............................................................................................................5
Rationale of the study..................................................................................................................6
Significance of the study.............................................................................................................6
Route map of research.................................................................................................................6
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................8
Basic knowledge about the cloud computing in context of an organisation...............................8
Identification of positive impacts of cloud computing on business organisation......................11
Challenges that may face by Apple by using Cloud computing in their business operations.. .14
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...........................................................................18
CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS...............................................................................28
CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION........................................................................................................36
Discussion of findings...............................................................................................................41
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATION AND REFLECTION...........................42
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................42
Reflection...................................................................................................................................43
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................43
Areas For further Research........................................................................................................44
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................46
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Topic: “Cloud Computing and Apple”
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Overview of research
Cloud computing is defined as on-demand accessibility of resources associated with
computer system that are liable for furnishing data storage as well as computing power without
any direct management via their users. Basically, this involves delivery of hosted services
through internet. This is used for describing data centre that comprises of tools and applications
like data storage, database, networking and servers (Jiang, Ma and Wei, 2016). Cloud furnishes
enhanced computing platform that assist individuals and firms to render their activities such as
expansion of modified software, utilisation of online storage space and creation of realistic
network environment. At present scenario, individuals have opted for making use of cloud
services within enhanced manner. This is being used by firms for minimising operational cost
and enhancing flow of cash. Like social news website makes use of storage space which is
furnished by Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). It is web service that provides secured as
well as resizable computing capacity.
To understand the influence of cloud computing Apple Inc has been taken into account
which is an American multinational firm, who renders their services worldwide and was founded
on 1st April, 1976. They furnish their customers with wide range of products as well as services
which makes them leading within different industries. iCloud is being provided by Apple which
provides cloud storage along with synchronisation for user data. It enables users within storing
photos, music and documents on remote servers for downloading; sharing as well as managing of
their Apple devices are lost.
Background of the research
Cloud computing denotes delivery of computing services which comprises of database,
software, servers, analytics, intelligence, storage and networking via internet to furnish flexible
resources, economies and flexible resources (Kalaiprasath, Elankavi and Udayakumar, 2017).
Within this, user can pay for services which are being used by them which lead to minimisation
of operating cost and scale operations of business as per alterations which are made by them.
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Problem statement
Cloud computing comprises of resource pooling, on-demand self services, easy maintenance,
large network access, availability, automatic system, economical, security, pay as you go and
measured services. In distinct firms like Apple, makes use of cloud computing to deliver their
services as per required standards. But there are also certain restrictions which are imposed by
cloud computing like security aspects. Thus, problem of this research is identification of impact
that is created by cloud computing on the operations that are being conducted by organisation.
Both positive and negative aspects will be analysed to weigh which aspect will create huge
influence on productivity along with profitability of firm (Ahmed and Hossain, 2014). As
features rendered by cloud computing seems valuable for firm, it becomes essential for
organisation to have in-depth analysis of aspects through which their operations can be
amplified.
Research aim
“To identify the impact of Cloud computing on business operations of an organisation.” A
study on Apple.
Research Objectives
 To develop basic knowledge about the cloud computing in context of an organisation.
 To identify positive impacts of cloud computing on business organisation.
 To ascertain several challenges that may face by Apple by using Cloud computing in
their business operations.
Research Questions
 Develop basic knowledge about cloud computing context of an organisation.
 Identify positive impacts of cloud computing on business organisation.
 What challenges are faced by Apple by using Cloud computing in their business
operations?
Statement of Hypothesis
H0: Cloud computing creates an affirmative impact on performance as well as productivity of
overall organisation.
H1: Cloud computing leads to creation of pessimistic influence on productivity as well
performance of overall organisation.
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Rationale of the study
As technology is evolving it also creates a huge impact on ways in which firms render their
services. It is crucial to acknowledge this ways so that appropriate understanding can be
developed with respect to this. Within this study, influence of cloud computing on Apple will be
covered along with affirmatives associated with this. Furthermore, there are certain challenges
which will be faced by firms while shifting for new technologies or adapting to them within new
working structure. This will provide in-depth knowledge related with cloud computing as well as
ways in which this creates influence on services or operations of Apple. By carrying out this
research, researcher can enhance their skills in terms of data collection, time management and
team work. It is important for investigator to opt for effectual techniques and tools so that
appropriate quality can be achieved.
Significance of the study
This research is conducted as cloud computing is an emerging technology that can act as
major asset for an organisation. Effective usage of technology within firm will facilitate them to
carry out their operation in an affirmative way by having access of information globally, save
additional cost, have resources as per requirement and release them when they are not required
any more. They are some benefits of cloud computing that will aid Apple Inc to develop within
growing market by attaining adequate success (Jouini and et. al, 2012). This will lead the firm to
have improvised productivity along with performance level of their workforce.
Route map of research
The crucial part of research which aids readers within classification of relevant information
related with each chapter that is being studied is referred to as route map. In this section of
research, distinct chapters which will be included are mentioned beneath:
Chapter 1: Introduction: This implies introductory chapter or overview of activities
associated with dissertation. This activity comprises of the entire basis as well as relevant data
related with topic. With the assistance of this chapter, reader will have information related with
research aim, questions, objectives and background of study.
Chapter 2: Literature Review: This implies second chapter of research that is mainly
dependent on study done by other authors. Within this part of dissertation, wide number of
magazines, books, publication research, articles, etch sources are utilised. As they are liable for
supporting reader within recognition of opinions of author related with topic. In this section,
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distinct number of authors has furnished their view points and view on influence that is created
by cloud computing on operations carried out by organisation in terms of their performance
along with productivity (Jouini and et. al, 2012). Furthermore, major rationale of literature
review in research is identification of gaps within previous studies that have been conducted.
Chapter 3: Research Methodology: It implies third activity or chapter of dissertation
which entirely depends on research methods that have to be conducted. This section of research
comprises of distinct methods like secondary and primary methods for data collection.
Quantitative or qualitative research, philosophies, instruments and many other aspects related
with research. They denotes crucial methods that are liable for supporting researcher to gather
appropriate as well as relevant information related with peculiar topic.
Chapter 4: Findings and analysis: This is fourth activity of dissertation that is more
crucial as this aid within interpreting data or information related with topic. In this part of
research, frequency table will be formulated that will assist researcher within identification of
agreed as well as unagreed respondents in regards to latest study (Hashizume and et. al, 2013).
. In addition to this, within this chapter, distinct number of tables as well as graphs is being
formulated that are entirely dependent on frequency table or response attained from respondents.
Chapter 5: Discussion: This implies fifth activity that will be carried out within
dissertation which will furnish assistance to researcher for appropriate recognition of secondary
along with primary information. Literature review will be utilised for examination of secondary
information associated with the topic. On the other hand, questionnaire will aid researcher in
furnishing primary information or data in context of impact of cloud computing on productivity
and performance of organisation.
Chapter 6: Conclusion and Recommendation: This is the last task or chapter of
dissertation that is liable for supporting reader within identification of information related with
whether research objectives are attained or not (Jiang, Ma and Wei, 2016). This chapter depends
on research findings as well as analysis up to some extent. In addition to this, some suggestions
will also be rendered to organisation which is completely based on topic of study.
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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
This is crucial abstract of works that have been published on peculiar area. It is liable for
developing landscape for readers which furnish them complete understanding with respect to
development made within area. This type of landscape provides learner with information that
researcher has to assimilated from previous work done by authors in research field. The rationale
of literature review is to furnish excessive data which will aid within supporting new insight.
Within this section, information has been gathered by making use of secondary sources like
books, articles, internet, etc. This will furnish precise information and data related with peculiar
area as well as having affirmative results of research. Literature review is referred to as effectual
as well as systematic process that is applied by investigators for gathering in-depth information
related with current topic. The rationale behind this part is to identify gap along with conflicts
within previous studies that were conducted (Ashktorab and Taghizadeh, 2012). By identifying
those gaps it will become easy for researcher to fill them by carrying out further study. In this
section of dissertation each objective as well as questions will be addressed in an organised way.
It is crucial area of investigation that will aid within carrying out overall work in appropriate
way by examining existent data related with topic. Thus, the available information will assist
researcher to gain knowledge about subject that will enable to conduct research in desired
manner as well as draw valid conclusion. This part is considered as base for investigation as
within this efficacious theoretical perspective will be created that will assist within carrying out
tasks in a relevant way. Within this part, data is being gathered by making use of secondary
sources that comprises of published research articles, past investigation reports, newspapers and
journals. It is viably dependent on aims as well as objectives of investigation; thereby an
adequate theoretical framework will be developed by carrying out analysis of opinions and views
of distinct writers and authors (Chou, 2013). This dissertation is based on topic “Cloud
computing and Apple” which denotes that area of study is wider. For gathering information
about topic, opinions of different authors have been taken into consideration.
Basic knowledge about the cloud computing in context of an organisation.
According to Nabi, Jamwal and Padmanbh, (2020), the model which enables convenient,
ubiquitous and on-demand network access for shared pool of computing resources which can be
configured as well as rapidly provisioned and released via minimised efforts from management
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is defined as cloud computing. With reference to business organisation, this technology will
enable users to have access to cloud when it is required without making any interaction with
service providers. Business personals can make use of their preferable tools like desktops,
laptops, etc for having access to information. Along with this, resources can be pooled through
which computing services can be delivered.
Cloud computing is different from the ways in which traditional IT hosting services like in this
people do not own infrastructure that is required for supporting applications or programs which
are being utilised by them. Furthermore, these entities are owned as well as operated by third
party and end users have to only make payments for services which are being utilised by them
(Kumar and Kumar, 2013). This implies that cloud computing is utility based, on-demand model
of computing. By opting for services from cloud firms like Apple can have access to computing
services when it is required without carrying out any communication with service provider. This
will enable them to have control as well as agility to accomplish their evolving requirements.
One of the major striking elements associated with cloud computing is pooling of resources for
delivering computing services at larger scale which enables Apple Inc to render their services
across the world in an efficacious manner. Resources like memory, network bandwidth and
storage are being pooled as well as allotted to different firms which make it easy for them to
deliver their services as per required standards.
Elasticity is other crucial aspect which is being provided by cloud computing in which
resources are being allocated in quick as well as accurate manner that possess ability for
absorbing relevant enhancement and decline in demands without quality degradation along with
service interruption (Lee, 2012). The features that are being furnished by Cloud computing and
can be utilised Apple Inc are agility, scalability, reliability, availability, multi sharing, device &
location independence, maintenance, low cost and services in pay per use mode. There are
different types of cloud which can be utilised by firms as per their requirements, they are
illustrated below:
Public Cloud: This is open to all where each firm as well as individuals can have storage
space along with access to data through the usage of internet via utilising pay per usage method.
In this, computing resources are being operated and managed by CSP (Cloud Service Providers).
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, Google App Engine, EC2 (Amazon elastic compute cloud) and
Windows Azure services platform (Modi and et. al, 2013). It is not apt for Apple due to the
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security issues and performance is entirely dependent on high speed internet. Despite of these
aspects, it provides various benefits like reduced cost, maintained by CSP which can be easily
integrated which will lead to provide enhanced flexibility and are easily accessible.
Private Cloud: This is also referred to as corporate or internal cloud which is being utilised
by firms for building as well as managing their own data centres either internally or through the
assistance of third party. They are being deployed by making use of Eucalyptus and Openstack
(Parekh and Sridaran, 2013). As per standards formulated by NIST (National Institute of
Standards and Technology), private cloud has been segregated into on-premise and outsourced.
This can be utilised by Apple Inc for furnishing higher levels of security, improvised
performance, quickly allocate as well as distribute on-demand information technology resources,
renders complete control over cloud and needs a unlike cloud for personal usage along with
enhanced data security. Apart from this, there are certain restrictions like well qualified
employees for operating and managing operations and area of operations will also be restricted.
Hybrid Cloud: This implies aggregation of private as well as public cloud. It implies that
features rendered by this will be combination of both and it is considered as secured. The reason
behind this is that services which are executed on public cloud will be easily accessed by anyone
and the later can be only utilised by employees of Apple. The example of hybrid cloud is Office
365 (One drive and MS Office on Web), Amazon Web Services and Google Application Suite
(Google Apps, Google drive and Gmail). It provides features like furnish enhanced security,
services can be delivered quickly, risks can be minimised and flexible resources are being
offered (Rabai and et. al, 2013). In addition to this, some restrictions posed by them are
adequate standards of security that are being provided by private cloud cannot be attained,
complexity level is high as different types of models have to be maintained and reliability is
dependent on CSP.
Community Cloud: It assists services as well as systems which can be accessed by group
of distinct of different firms for sharing data among organisations and peculiar community. This
is operated, managed and owned by one or more firms within community. For an example,
health care community cloud (Types of cloud, 2018). The features provided by them are that it
can be shared by various communities which implies it is cost-effective, better security,
distributive environment, collaborative cloud and assists in sharing infrastructure, cloud
resources and many other capabilities. But also have certain limitations as security features are
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not apt like private cloud, each firm cannot make its use, fixed amount of bandwidth and data
storage among different community members.
These are the options which firms like Apple to make use of services rendered by cloud.
By analysing aspects mentioned above, the better option for large firms is private cloud as they
have to process huge amount of information with high accuracy, resources and security as one of
the major aspect (Rachana and Guruprasad, 2014). The reason behind this is that when rendering
services globally, it is important that people have easy access to services rather than time
processing system. This implies that by opting for private cloud firm can provide their services to
customers in an appropriate manner.
Identification of positive impacts of cloud computing on business organisation.
As per Neware and et. al, (2020), Cloud is a wide concept which aids organisation to
enhance their operation through which they can accomplish business goals along with attaining
customer’s satisfaction. It enables business organisation like Apple to have access to latest
applications without spending time on installations. The utility model i.e. cloud computing can
be measured as well as metered which implies that service providers can monitor usage and
accordingly gauge cost as per demand that is being made by business. When resources are
allocated successfully then there is elasticity. This will allow Apple to have resources quickly
and accurately for absorbing relevant enhancement within sales without quality degradation.
Cloud computing lays affirmative influence on business firms as this leads to enhancement
within their revenue as well as aids them to attain their organisational goals (Sharma and Trivedi,
2014). Firms opts for making use of services that are being offered cloud instead of developing
own infrastructure. Impacts that will be created by Cloud computing on Apple Inc are illustrated
below:
Reduced cost: Cloud computing minimize expenses of organization as they can have
resources as per their requirements and they make payments as per working of billing model
according to how much they used. In addition to this, there is no upfront cost associated with
this. The infrastructure is not being purchased by the firms, this leads to reduction within the
initial expenses along with maintenance cost associated with that (Tariq, 2012). Organizations
will not be owner but can avail the services as per their requirements.
Unlimited scalability: It is major benefit that is being rendered by cloud computing as
client has flexibility to scale down or scale up according to requirements of organization. The
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firms have not to be anxious about future requirements as they can have services when firm
needs it (Tiwari and Mishra, 2012). Like Apple is providing their services at global level and
want to expand them then it can be done effortlessly by which enhanced needs can be
accomplished over time easily.
Flexibility: Cloud computing furnishes impelling flexibility to firms like Apple as they can
easily test as well as deploy services over cloud. Along with this, they can decide what service is
required by them the most and pay for it accordingly as well as firms can release it if it is not
required any more. The services provided by cloud can easily accomplish altering needs of the
business by providing them different options. In case applications that are being given by any
peculiar cloud service provider are not able to meet the requirements of organization then they
have the flexibility to switch to other provider.
Better mobility: The users of cloud can access services from cloud at any time and from
anywhere as per their requirements and they can be availed by making use of any device. But it
is only possible when employees or customers of organization have active internet connection.
They can login by making use of their credentials and can make use of services (Kumar and
Kumar, 2013). It leads firms to have flexible working culture as employees can carry out their
responsibilities or tasks from anywhere without being physically present within the working
premises of Apple.
Improved communication: Cloud computing enhances interaction along with
collaboration that takes place among employees by providing them access to video conferencing,
instant messaging and conferencing options. Through this choice employees of Apple can jointly
work on peculiar projects and a document by making sure that higher cohesion as well as team
efforts prevails within. It is only possible due to data centralization along with continuous
updates which are being made within real time scenario.
Reliability: Services of cloud can be accessed by firms all the time and from anywhere as
per their requirement. A backup can be created as well as recovery management can be carried
out which makes cloud computing technology more reliable (Cloud Computing-Positive Impacts
and Challenges in Business Perspective, 2020).
Increased storage: There are various cloud providers within the market who provides
different services and some furnishes it as a storage as a service to their customers or
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