Business Report: Cloud Storage Options and Strategies for XYZ Inc.

This report outlines strategies for XYZ Inc., a growing enterprise, to procure a cloud storage option. It discusses the company's current information management strategy and the issues it faces. The report suggests creating a private cloud environment for cost savings, scalability, and self-service. It also highlights the short and long-term impacts of implementing a private cloud, such as greater horizontal scalability and self-service access to IT resources. The report concludes that shifting to cloud services removes the need for large hardware investments and allows for a re-evaluation of the procurement strategy, referencing several sources on cloud computing and related business perspectives.

PROCURING A CLOUD
STORAGE OPTION

SIZE OF THE XYZ INC.
COMPANY
XYZ Inc. is a growing enterprise and it offers all its
services globally. However, company is serving its
operations globally. At the time of recruitment
services they includes all the recent jobs, hiring
trends etc. It helps users in effectively searching any
type of information more appropriately.

TYPES OF SERVICES OFFERED
BY COMPANY
 Recruitment
 Tourism
 Health professionals access, bookings etc.

CURRENT INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
XYZ Inc. is an organization which offers its digital
services globally. Currently they are having their own IT
management system and server. On the basis of this
server company is maintaining all its functions. Within
this server system they keep data of their entire
organization. Currently they are facing several issues in
accessing central servers due to its maintenance cost as
well as requirements of IT management staff.

STRATEGIES FOR PROCURING
A CLOUD STORAGE OPTION
XYZ Inc. is really moving to a cloud storage strategy so that
they can realize a true distributed environment. There are
various strategies for procuring a cloud storage option such as:
 Plan early to extract the full benefit of cloud
 Avoid overly prescriptive requirements
 Specify commercial item terms
 Understand different cloud models
 Separate cloud infrastructure from managed services
 Incorporate a utility pricing model
 Leverage third party accreditations for security, privacy and
auditing
 Design cloud evaluation criteria

DIFFERENT CLOUD OPTIONS
AVAILABLE FOR XYZ INC.

BEST CLOUD STORAGE STRATEGY
FOR XYZ INC. COMPANY
There are various ways on the basis of which
company can move towards the cloud storage
strategy. Here, one of the best options for them is
to create a private cloud environment. Creating a
private cloud can bring cost savings, scalability
as well as self service. It requires a careful
planning as it may involves planning. The
performance of private cloud infrastructure is
very good as it provides most secure on site
premises.

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SHORT AND LONG TERM
IMPACT ON ORGANIZATION
With the help of developing private cloud storage
company can easily allow greater degree of
horizontal scalability. They can easily share and store
any type of data from different departments. With
this end users of company can gain self service
access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIVATE
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
XYZ company can easily shift towards the
implementation of cloud services. With this, they can
easily remove the need for large investments in
hardware. It also provides and opportunity to firm to
re-evaluate their existing procurement strategy and
create a fast, flexible acquisition process that
capitalizes on the full scale and flexibility of the
cloud. It is the best way to pare extraneous systems
from the data centre and expanding into other areas.

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Creating a private cloud helps company in cost
savings as well as maintaining scalability.
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