Research Proposal: Cloud Computing's Pros and Cons in Business Context

This research proposal examines the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing in a business context. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing, highlighting its role in organizational success by enabling access to applications via the internet. The proposal outlines project objectives, scope, and a literature review that explores the benefits like flexibility, disaster recovery, and automatic software updates, alongside drawbacks such as downtime, security concerns, and limited control. The methodology section details the use of qualitative research methods, employing both primary and secondary sources, including questionnaires, interviews, journals, articles, and websites for data collection. Research questions address the importance, advantages, disadvantages, and management considerations of cloud computing. Hypotheses propose the impact of cloud computing on employee workload and the potential risks associated with data security and costs. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding cloud computing's impact on business operations and the need to address associated challenges effectively.

Running head: Pros and Cons of Cloud computing 1
Research proposal
Pros and Cons of cloud computing in the business

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Contents
Research title: Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing in business.............................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Project objective..............................................................................................................................4
Project scope....................................................................................................................................5
Literature review..............................................................................................................................6
Research questions and hypotheses...............................................................................................11
Research questions.....................................................................................................................11
Hypotheses.................................................................................................................................11
Research Design and Methodology...............................................................................................12
Research limitation........................................................................................................................15
Time schedule................................................................................................................................16
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................18

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Research title: Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing in business
Introduction
Cloud computing is one of the effective technology which is based on calculating and
accepted by many businesses. It gives huge contribution in the success of an organization
because it helps organization to attain the objectives and aims of the company. It is the research
proposal which will describes the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing in the
business. The employees of the organization downloaded software application and programs and
would run on a physical server of the company, cloud computing is the approach which allows
them to get access on the similar type of applications by the internet. In order to understand the
research, primary and secondary sources will be used to analyze the research. Literature review
will describe the each advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. Methodology will help
out to determine the importance of research topic.

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Project objective
Each activity is brought out with a reason which should be attained from the initiation of
the activity. The main objective of this research is to fin d out the utilization of new technology
in the business and search out the pros and cons while using this technology in the business.
Advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computing are connected with the use of cloud
computing in the business. These all elements are covered with the program of research.
Secondary sources are being used mostly to collect the information regarding cloud computing in
the business. Reliability and validity of their research is can be seen in the gathered information.

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Project scope
The research program will describe the numerous pros and cons of utilizing the social
network for business. The main role of this pros and cons of using cloud computing will be
discussed under the program of research. . The judgment will be prepared between the
constructive and unconstructive collision of cloud computing for analyzing the affect of the
clound computing on business.

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Literature review
Cloud computing is beneficiary for the business because it allows employee to get access
in the applications and program of downloaded software. It has so many benefits point such as
flexibility, disaster recovery, capital expenditure fees, automatic software updates, increased
collaboration, security, document control, work from anywhere, environmentally friendly and
competitiveness. In the term of flexibility, cloud based services are ideal for the growth of the
business or variable bandwidth demands. As per increasing the need, it can easily calculated with
the help of cloud computing. It would be beneficial for the organization because it provides the
ability to get real advantages over competitors1. In the context of disaster recovery, it has been
analyzed that the larger business invest certain amount of their fund for the robust disaster
recovery, but for smaller business, it is not possible to invest huge amount of fund in the
recovery of disaster. Cloud computing is facilitated more organization buck that trend. Small
companies can also implement the cloud based backup similar larger company. It helps to reduce
the cost, save the time and roll up third party expertise as part of the deal.2 Automatic software
updates refers to the take care of the servers and roll out continuous software updates. It provides
facility of automatic software updating so it is not required for the employee to worry about the
maintaining the software. Capital expenditure free in the cloud computing because it cuts out the
higher cost of hardware. The workflow of clound computing based allows other employees to get
access in the application and they can see the real time visibility of the updates. It helps them to
1 A Hameed, A Khoshkbarforoushha, R Ranjan, P Jayaraman, J Kolodziej, P Balaji & S Khan, A survey and taxonomy
on energy efficient resource allocation techniques for cloud computing systems. Computing, 98(7), 751-774, 2016
2 T Taleb, M Corici, C Parada, A Jamakovic, S Ruffino, G Karagiannis & T Magedanz, EASE: EPC as a service to ease
mobile core network deployment over cloud. IEEE Network, 29(2), 78-88, 2015

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make updates in actual time and provide them entire visibility of their collaborations3. The big
advantage of cloud computing is when one can have the internet connection, so it is easy for
them to do work from anywhere. It is advantageous for the employee because with the help of
doing work from anywhere it is considered as the perk for the employee because they can easily
manage their work life balance that suits them4. Document control becomes easy with the help
cloud computing. While employee moves the files to cloud computing all essential files are
stored focus and visible for every person in the organization. Greater visibility refers to huge
collaboration, which defines the healthier work environment and better work. It has been
analyzed the the lost laptop is the problem of billion business and due to this all relevant and
essential information about personal and official have been lost. Cloud computing refers a
greater security when this occurs5. Due to stored data in cloud, it is possible for the employee to
get access it no matter what occurs to the physical machine. Cloud computing provide access to
business-class technology for every employee. It provides facility to the smaller business to run
its business faster in comparison of bigger and provide opportunity to come in the queue of
competitor. It is also helpful for making friendly environment because it is not taking a lot of
time of employees and allows them to keep working without worrying about the software
updates. The more organization go through the digital world, the more it can realize that speed is
significant for making the decision, whether positive or negative. Every information and data of
3 S Manvi & G Shyam, Resource management for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing: A
survey. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 41, 424-440, 2014
4 S Moharana, R Ramesh & D Powar, Analysis of load balancers in cloud computing. International Journal of
Computer Science and Engineering, 2(2), 101-108, 2013
5 R Boutaba, Q Zhang & M Zhani, Virtual machine migration in cloud computing environments: Benefits, challenges,
and approaches. Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing, 383-408, 2013

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an organization is interlinked in cloud computing that allows immediate interaction. Changes can
be done in the cloud computing at the time sent.
Every coin has two aspects which show one part in positive manner and another is
negative. Similar condition is applied with cloud computing there are various disadvantage of
cloud computing in the business which may have affect adversely to the business6. These are
downtime, security and privacy, vulnerability to attack, limited control and flexibility,
dependencies and higher cost. Cloud computing is entirely based on the internet which refers the
dependencies on the connection of internet. Due to down server of internet connection can stop
the activity of the entire business. One of the important concern of cloud computing is data
security. The security of data should be addressed majorly in the term of where the data carries
secrets of trade, customer files and financial data of the organization. As per first assignment, it
has been analyzed by the response of respondents in the survey that most of the user say that the
security of thee data is the responsibility of the end-user; on the other hand some of end users
claimed that cloud providers are the liable for the security of the data7.
Smaller business does not have the sufficient resources and fund to prevent their data
when it is in-house. It may happen that reasonably priced offs-site solution may be right for
specific applications. Another disadvantage of cloud computing is dependability of the web
based applications that is consecutively in the cloud. Implicit dependency is considered as the
vendor lock which is the disadvantages of the cloud computing8. The differences between the
6 J González-Martínez, M Bote-Lorenzo, E Gómez-Sánchez & R Cano-Parra, Cloud computing and education: A
state-of-the-art survey. Computers & Education, 80, 132-151, 2015
7 I Hashem, I Yaqoob, N Anuar, S Mokhtar, A Gani & S Khan, The rise of “big data” on cloud computing: Review and
open research issues. Information Systems, 47, 98-115, 2015
8 J W Rittinghouse, and J F Ransome, Cloud computing: implementation, management, and security.
CRC press. 2016

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vendor systems can make it unfeasible to migrate from one platform of cloud to another. It has
been analyzed that every employee of the company can have access of cloud computing9. It is
not considerable in the term of security because the higher chance of breaches and severe attacks
enhance. It is dependent on the varying degrees that are why the users of cloud have limited
control over the activities and functions of the infrastructure of hosting. Customers are also
restricted to the control and management of their applications and services10. The cost of cloud
computing is pricey in the term of smaller business and for short term projects. There is a
misconception for the cloud computing where number of people makes thinking that these
applications are running out with the help of the internet, rather than it is a built-in redundancy.
In the section of benefits, it has been described that cloud computing is useful for the
business and able to reduces the unnecessary costs11. But in adverse situation it may cost more
than the unexpecated to the company if the website comes under a distributed denial of service
attack. Due to lack of privacy and security, data of the organization may get affected and hacked,
then the provider simply starts to enhance the resources that is essential in the site due to attack.
It is required to ask the provider about the provisions where they can get advantages in the term
of prevented against these kind of attacks12. It has been analyzed that changes are taking place in
9 M D RyanCloud computing security: The scientific challenge, and a survey of solutions. Journal of
Systems and Software, 86(9), 2013 pp.2263-2268.
10 H T Dinh, C Lee, D Niyato and P Wang, A survey of mobile cloud computing: architecture, applications,
and approaches. Wireless communications and mobile computing, 13(18), pp.1587-1611 2013.
11 M Ali, S U Khanand, A V Vasilakos, Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and
challenges. Information Sciences, 305, pp.357-383 2015
12 T Oliveira M Thomas and M Espadanal Assessing the determinants of cloud computing adoption: An
analysis of the manufacturing and services sectors. Information & Management, 51(5), pp.497-510.2014

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the environment of the business and cloud computing has facilitated in enhancing the business
and able to cope up with the enhancing competition due to the dynamic business environment.

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Research questions and hypotheses
Research questions
Research question has been made for this research which is listed below:
 What is the importance of cloud computing in the business?
 What are the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing in the business?
 What aspects are required to be considered while managing the cloud computing in the
business?
Hypotheses
The cloud computing makes easy life and reduces work burdened of the employee in the
organisation
There is a chance of losing data in cloud computing due to lack of security and privacy. It can
affect the organisation by enhancing the cost.

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Research Design and Methodology
Research methodologies refer to various methods or techniques which is helpful for the
researcher to gather the information from the different available sources. Various kinds of
methods and techniques have been considered for the initiation of this research. These methods
and techniques are listed below:
Methods of research
There can be used of different kind of research method to analyse the research topic and
collecting the relevant information. Qualitative method has been taken in use for researching the
topic. The method and approach of qualitative has been taken up for the gather the information
related to the topic. It will help out to gather the information related to the research topic on
quality basis.
Approaches of research
The approaches of qualitative and quantitative have been considered to gather the
information of the research topic. Qualitative approach aids in accumulating the data by
enlarging the understanding of the reason, aspects and opinions. To gather the information in
quality manner, primary and secondary sources are being used in the research. Information about
the research has been brought together from the journals, research, articles and websites.
Data collection
Collection of data is done with purpose to gather the factual information for the research
so that the implementation of the research program could be done n proper manner. The use of
primary and secondary sources is taken to collect the relevant information13. A combination of
these resources has been taken for fulfilling the motive of better understanding about the research
13 I Mezgár, U & Rauschecker, The challenge of networked enterprises for cloud computing
interoperability. Computers in Industry, 65(4), 657-674, 2014

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topic. Primary sources are gathered directly by the respondent and it is fresh material which is
not being used in anywhere. It is the source which is able to provide the recent information and
includes questionnaire and interview. Secondary sources are more reliable in comparison of
primary sources. Secondary sources are not fresh material because it provides the material which
is used by someone in somewhere. It enhances the reliability and authenticity of the research
material. Secondary sources contain journals, articles, websites, books and internet.
Sampling size and techniques
It is a challenge to analyse the huge quantity of data because the time is limited to
evaluate the data. Random sampling techniques have been chosen for coping up with this issue
because it provides chance to an individual and each member of the population of being involved
in the sample. The key feature of random sampling technique is its delegations of the
population14. Strategy of research
It is important for the relevancy of the research program to be completed within time
frame. It is essential for obtaining the aim and objectives of this research to conduct the research
properly. An approach of systematic has been developed for the execution of the every activity.
It helps to accomplish the activity within a sequence manner. It has outcome in the form of
covering each aspects in a sequence manner which is relevant for the research.
Targeted market
Target market refers to the place where information of the research has to be collected. The
primary and secondary sources have been used to gather the information related the topic.
Primary source contributes in the form of questionnaire which will be reflected to the
departments of marketing that used cloud computing in their business. Secondary sources have
14 M Whaiduzzaman, M Sookhak, A Gani & R Buyya, A survey on vehicular cloud computing. Journal of Network and
Computer Applications, 40, 325-344, 2014

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been used through gathered information from reliability journals and other published material
after 2008.
Ethical consideration
Research program has been conducted by keeping in mind of ethical consideration. The
researcher is not allowed to leak any information about this topic to third party. If they do so, as
per data protection act, they will be punished against the revealed or disclosed data or
information. There will be information shows that are not maneuvered by any ways where
readers feel any complexity to review or assess the notion stated in the research paper.

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Research limitation
There are certain limitation has arisen while researching the program, these limitations
are mentioned below:
 The time limit is short which brought the issues in the execution of the program of
research. By reason of availability of limited time, random sampling technique has been
chosen to evaluate and analyse the accumulated data.
 The limitation of getting access over the data is also the reason of adverse impact on the
execution of the research.
 The resources are limited which impacts on the initiation of the research program.

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Time schedule
Serial
number
Activities Starting date Duration
(days)
achievement
date
Description
1 Decide on topic for
research
20
September,
2017
2 21
September,
2017
Determination of
the topic will be
done
2 Erecting plans for
research
22
September,
2017
4 25
September,
2017
Plans will be
erected
3 Execution of the
erected plans
26
September,
2017
4 29
September,
2017
Plans will be
executed
4 Data collection 30
September,
2017
6 5 October,
2017
Methods for data
will been
selected
5 Analyzing the
accumulated data
6 October,
2017
4 9 October,
2017
Data will be
analyzed
6 explanation of
consequences
10 October,
2017
3 12 October,
2017
Outcomes will be
drawn
7 Conclusion and
recommendations
13 October,
2017
2 14 October,
2017
Conclusion and
recommendations

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will be prepared.

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Conclusion
It has been collected that cloud computing has great importance in dynamic business. It
has been understood that there is several pros and cons of cloud computing but this technology
has brought huge changes in the business venture. Different approaches and techniques have
been used to analyze the data. Limitation has been reflected but with the help of precautions and
careful analysis, it can be minimized. The weight of advantages of cloud computing is outweigh
the limitations of cloud computing. However, there are some negative points reflected of cloud
computing but with the help of careful nature, it can be adopted by smaller business as well.

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References
A Hameed, A Khoshkbarforoushha, R Ranjan, P Jayaraman, J Kolodziej, P Balaji & S Khan, A
survey and taxonomy on energy efficient resource allocation techniques for cloud computing
systems. Computing, 98(7), 751-774, 2016
T Taleb, M Corici, C Parada, A Jamakovic, S Ruffino, G Karagiannis & T Magedanz, EASE:
EPC as a service to ease mobile core network deployment over cloud. IEEE Network, 29(2), 78-
88, 2015
S Manvi & G Shyam, Resource management for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud
computing: A survey. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 41, 424-440, 2014
S Moharana, R Ramesh & D Powar, Analysis of load balancers in cloud
computing. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, 2(2), 101-108, 2013
R Boutaba, Q Zhang & M Zhani, Virtual machine migration in cloud computing environments:
Benefits, challenges, and approaches. Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing,
383-408, 2013
J González-Martínez, M Bote-Lorenzo, E Gómez-Sánchez & R Cano-Parra, Cloud computing
and education: A state-of-the-art survey. Computers & Education, 80, 132-151, 2015
I Hashem, I Yaqoob, N Anuar, S Mokhtar, A Gani & S Khan, The rise of “big data” on cloud
computing: Review and open research issues. Information Systems, 47, 98-115, 2015
J W Rittinghouse, and J F Ransome, Cloud computing: implementation, management, and
security. CRC press. 2016
M D RyanCloud computing security: The scientific challenge, and a survey of solutions. Journal
of Systems and Software, 86(9), 2013 pp.2263-2268.

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H T Dinh, C Lee, D Niyato and P Wang, A survey of mobile cloud computing: architecture,
applications, and approaches. Wireless communications and mobile computing, 13(18), pp.1587-
1611 2013.
M Ali, S U Khanand, A V Vasilakos, Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and
challenges. Information Sciences, 305, pp.357-383 2015
T Oliveira M Thomas and M Espadanal Assessing the determinants of cloud computing
adoption: An analysis of the manufacturing and services sectors. Information &
Management, 51(5), pp.497-510.2014
I Mezgár, U & Rauschecker, The challenge of networked enterprises for cloud computing
interoperability. Computers in Industry, 65(4), 657-674, 2014
M Whaiduzzaman, M Sookhak, A Gani & R Buyya, A survey on vehicular cloud
computing. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 40, 325-344, 2014