Cloud Computing: Analysis & Recommendations for Regional Gardens Ltd

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of cloud computing solutions for Regional Gardens Ltd, a company with various gardening enterprises. It evaluates the suitability of different cloud models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), considering the company's existing infrastructure and future needs. The report discusses the benefits and drawbacks of each model, focusing on factors like cost-effectiveness, security, scalability, and ease of implementation. It also explores different approaches to office automation, recommending an ad hoc approach for its simplicity and speed. The analysis leads to a recommendation of PaaS for Regional Gardens, highlighting its advantages in leveraging the existing data center and providing a customizable cloud service. The report also addresses potential problems associated with PaaS, such as security concerns and performance issues, and suggests mitigation strategies. The overall goal is to provide Regional Gardens with a clear roadmap for migrating to the cloud and improving its IT infrastructure.

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Table of Contents
Answer 1..............................................................................................................................2
Answer 2............................................................................................................................13
2.1. Ad hoc Approach....................................................................................................14
2.2. Structured Approach..............................................................................................14
2.3. Chosen approach....................................................................................................15
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3.1. Differences between IaaS and PaaS.......................................................................15
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4.1. Differences among IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.....................................................................17
4.2. Recommended Cloud Model for Regional Gardens...............................................18
4.3. Problems associated with the recommended Model............................................19
References.........................................................................................................................21
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Answer 1
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Slide Note: This slide provides the outline of the topics that will be covered in the presentation
Slide Note: Cloud computing refers to the method of developing information technology
services. The services are provided and retrieved over internet. This on demand delivery of the
services will be very beneficial for Regional Gardens as it will automate all the business process
running within the organization.
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Slide Note: The main advantage of cloud computing is that it enables a medium sized company
like Regional Garden to compute their different business processes with limited resources. It
allows a particular company to drive down the costs of IT resources and avoid large expenditure
on hardware updates Therefore, cloud provides a cost effective solution for the business.
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Slide Note: Regional Garden is a medium sized enterprise and will be highly benefited by cloud
computing. Regional Gardens runs a number of gardening enterprise and therefore, it is
necessary for the organization to integrate and automate their business process in a single
place. Cloud will help the organization in achieving the same.
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Slide Note: The three major cloud architectures include IaaS, or infrastructure as a service, PaaS
or platform as a service and SaaS or software as a service. The infrastructure as a service and
platform as a service provides more control to the client in comparison to Software as a Service,
which is mainly controlled by the service provider.
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Slide Note: Infrastructure as a service can be defined as a type of cloud computing that
generally requires virtualized computing resources over internet. It is one of the main
categories of cloud computing. It provides the users with instant computing resources that are
managed over internet.
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Slide Note: Platform as a service provides a platform for deploying the cloud services in the
business. It enables the clients in deploying customizable cloud services in their business. It
provides the clients with the power of controlling and customizing the services as requirement.
In short, it provides a platform for deploying the customizable cloud services.
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Slide Note: Software as service or SaaS is a cloud computing service where a third party
provider hosts different application over internet and it can be accessed by the clients. Since
the third party provider is responsible for managing and controlling the services, it has major
security issues associated with it.
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Slide Note: Platform as a Service is chosen for Regional Gardens as the organization already has
a data center that can be put to use. Platform as a service cloud will enable the organization in
developing a customizable cloud service for the business. It offers a number of other benefits as
well, which includes flexibility and easy deployment.
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Slide Note: Platform as a service is Chosen for Regional Gardens as it offers a number of
advantages. Scalability and flexibility are major advantages offered by PaaS. Apart from this
PaaS can be easily deployed in the business and provides a potentially more cost effective
solution to the client in comparison to IaaS.
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