Presentation: Cloud Computing Benefits and Architecture for Businesses

This presentation outlines the benefits of cloud computing for Regional Gardens, focusing on integrating cloud services for its 30 staff members. It defines cloud computing and differentiates between public, private, and hybrid cloud models. The presentation emphasizes the advantages of cloud computing, such as improved data management, cost reduction, and enhanced data security. It then explores different cloud architectures, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and discusses the characteristics of each, such as scalability, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment. The presentation recommends the implementation of PaaS for Regional Gardens, enabling a customizable cloud platform for data storage and access, with flexibility in data movement. The presentation includes references to support the findings and recommendations.

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Benefits of using
Cloud Computing

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Presentation Outline
 Introduction
 What is Cloud Computing?
 Why to Choose Cloud Computing?
 Why to choose Cloud Computing?
 Cloud Architecture
 IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service
 PaaS or Platform as a Service
 SaaS or Software as a Service
 Conclusion

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Introduction
 Regional Gardens wishes to integrate cloud computing in their
daily operations for providing automation services for their 30
garden design, horticultural and support staff that works on the
different projects and clients in New South Whales.

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What is Cloud Computing?
 Cloud computing can be defined as an
information technology paradigm that
enables access to the network of remote
servers hosted over internet.
 There are mainly three types of cloud
platform, public cloud, private cloud and
hybrid cloud (Zissis & Lekkas, 2012)

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 In public cloud computing, the
data and the services stored over
cloud is accessible by the
general public
 While in private cloud only the
authorized or specified client can
access the data stored in cloud.
 Hybrid cloud combines the
feature of both public and private
cloud.

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Why to choose Cloud Computing?
 Cloud Services is recommended for Regional Gardens as it will
integrate all the business operations of the organization and will
help in better management of the same. (Jadeja & Modi, 2012)
 Since Cloud computing is based on internet, staffs of Regional
Gardens can access the stored data will the hep of a web
browser.

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 Cloud computing is
suggested for Regional
gardens as it drives down the
cost of data management
 Furthermore, it improves the
data security as cloud is
more secure and convenient
to use in comparison to in
house systems (Chen &
Zhao, 2012).

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Cloud Architecture
 The different Cloud architecture that Regional Gardens can
consider for deployment includes (Hossain, 2012)-
 IaaS or infrastructure as a service
 PaaS or Platform as a Service
 SaaS or software as a Service
The characteristics of all the three cloud architecture is needed to
evaluated in order to suggest a particular architecture for
Regional Gardens

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IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service
 The characteristics of IaaS
are as follows (Serrano,
Gallardo & Hernantes, 2015)-
 Client has a full control over
their data
 Most secure cloud
architecture
 It is scalable

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PaaS or Platform as a Service
 The different characteristics of
PaaS are as follows-
 It is a cost effective solution in
comparison to IaaS (Kolb &
Wirtz, 2014)
 The client, that is Regional
Gardens can have a full control
on their data as PaaS offers an
on demand service to the client
(Malfara, 2013).

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SaaS or Software as a Service
 The main characteristics of
SaaS are as follows-
 It is the most cost effective
cloud platform
 Enables rapid deployment of
the cloud services (Rai,
Sahoo & Mehfuz, 2013).
 Provides a very stable
service.

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Conclusion
 Therefore, it is recommended for Regional Gardens to
implement PaaS for moving all their current infrastructure to
cloud. This will allow the organization to set up a customizable
cloud platform for easy storage and access of data.
Furthermore, it will offer flexibility in data movement as well.

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References
 Zissis, D., & Lekkas, D. (2012). Addressing cloud computing security issues. Future Generation computer
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 Jadeja, Y., & Modi, K. (2012, March). Cloud computing-concepts, architecture and challenges. In Computing,
Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on (pp. 877-880). IEEE.
 Chen, D., & Zhao, H. (2012, March). Data security and privacy protection issues in cloud computing. In Computer
Science and Electronics Engineering (ICCSEE), 2012 International Conference on (Vol. 1, pp. 647-651). IEEE.
 Hossain, S. (2012). Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud Computing Service and Deployment Models: Layers and
Management, 26-49.
 Serrano, N., Gallardo, G., & Hernantes, J. (2015). Infrastructure as a service and cloud technologies. IEEE
Software, 32(2), 30-36.
 Malfara, D. (2013). Platform as a Service. working paper ACC 626, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 3 July.
 Kolb, S., & Wirtz, G. (2014, April). Towards application portability in platform as a service. In Service Oriented System
Engineering (SOSE), 2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on (pp. 218-229). IEEE.
 Rai, R., Sahoo, G., & Mehfuz, S. (2013). Securing software as a service model of cloud computing: Issues and
solutions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2426.

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