Cloud Based Services

Running head: CLOUD-BASED SERVICES
Cloud-Based Services
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Cloud Based Success Methodologies
CLOUD-BASED SERVICES
Could computing has made a movement from the utilization of physical equipment and privately
overseen programming and software to that of virtualized cloud-facilitated administration. Cloud
computing uses extensive systems of virtual services and administrations. This includes equipment (CPU,
network and storage) along with programming assets (databases, message frameworks, monitoring, and
load balancers). As Cloud keeps on revolutionizing applications in the educational community,
government, industry and numerous different fields, the move to this capable and adaptable platform
presents genuine difficulties at both hypothetical and down to earth levelsones that will frequently
require new methodologies and practices in all areas. A good example of Cloud success is given in the
case study of Mohawk Fine Papers.
JUST TWO WEEKS after Mohawk Fine Papers made the decision to sell its products on
Amazon.com, things were looking good for the company: Integration work was complete, connections to
its ERP system had lit up and sales were rolling in. Amazon generated tens of thousands of dollars in
revenue immediately, says Paul Stamas, vice president of IT at the $300 million, 725-employee
manufacturer of premium papers. Best of all, the data integration project, which cost less than $1,000 to
get off the ground, required no in-house investment in integration tools or staff resources.
Instead, cloud-services provider Liaison Technologies performed the integration work and then
set up -- and currently manages -- the connections through its cloud-based service. Two years ago, a
project like this would have been handled as just another point-to-point EDI integration. But the Amazon
deal and the 100-plus other business-to-business connections that Mohawk has set up through Liaison
over the past 18 months represent the culmination of Stamas' vision to create what he calls a serviceoriented architecture in the cloud (web.b.ebscohost.com, 2016).
Cloud-Based Failures
Two of the most spectacular failures I Cloud computing come from two well know names, Netflix
and Dropbox. One of the first real organizations to utilize Amazon's AWS cloud administrations was
Netflix. In many ways, the Netflix/AWS relationship was perfect: On the one hand, there was Netflix,
whose services were expanding far quicker than the organization could keep up with. On the other, retail
monster Amazon was on the cutting edge of the distributed computing development and prepared to
make a dazzle everyone with its new pursuit. Sadly, the Netflix blackout, which occurred on Christmas
Eve, was so broadly promoted and affected such a variety of individuals that this single occasion
ostensibly set the whole undertaking cloud development back a few stages.
Dropbox permitted anybody to get to client information basically by entering an email location of
said client. No secret word was required. This enormous security stumble, brought about by a bug in a
code upgrade, did not last a few minutes, but rather for almost four hours before it was found and altered.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

The advantages of Cloud computing are many including, cost savings, reliability, manageability
and completive edge. The disadvantages include downtime, security, vender lock in and limited control.
The cloud conundrum is a cause of common confusion for colocations and SMBs alike. Much
like a tongue twister, the benefits and drawbacks of cloud deployment can be hard to articulate even to
seasoned CIOs. So what are the cloud advantages for business and IT, and how worried should you be
about the disadvantages of cloud computing?
The cloud can bring value to your organization if the right software, platform or infrastructure is
deployed. Yet, before you downsize on premise IT for the service provider model, you need to understand
the features, benefits and limitations of the cloud.
The biggest fear of cloud computing is found in its major benefit the ability to outsource the IT
burden to a specialized vendor or provider. Sure it sounds great, but with a move to the cloud you do give
up the in-house control of a traditional IT department.
Probably the most understated benefit of the cloud it is reshaping IT into a proactively
innovative bunch that focuses a lot less on manual system administration, and a lot more on improving
the technology. From integration, mobility to even user personalization, giving your IT the cloud can make
their jobs much easier and more enjoyable (cloudcomputinginsights.com, 2016).
Best Practices for Extracting and Storing Data
The market place for big data is a long way from full grown, however we now have quite a few
years of accumulated involvement with various best practices particular to big data. It's vital to remember
that there is a tried and true set of best practices created for relationally-based enterprise data
warehouses (EDWs) that can be used.

Drive the decision of information sources feeding the EDW from business needs
Focus constantly on client interface straightforwardness and execution
The following EDW best practices are particularly important to big data:
Think dimensionally: separate the world into measurements and certainties
Integrate separate information sources with confirmed measurements
Track time fluctuation with gradually evolving measurements (SCDs)
Anchor all measurements with solid surrogate keys
As of late, a significant part of the discussion around information administration has moved
toward the cloud as a low cost and profoundly adaptable arrangement that can be gotten to through any
web association. However, there are some genuine impediments to securing information in the cloud:
Overseeing records is your obligation. Cloud suppliers ordinarily won't be much help if there is a
glitch and you let them know.

Open clouds are multi-inhabitant, which implies if your "neighbor" has a security break, then your
information can be uncovered. Open clouds are often shabby and offer quick adaptability, yet
their shared segment implies especially touchy information ought to be kept in-house.
The cloud is, obviously, attached to web availability. In the event that you have an ISP blackout,
then you can't get to your cloud-based information. In the event that some of your data is totally
mission critical, then guarantee you have physical media reinforcements to help you maintain the
business on account of poor web connections.
Effects of Big Data and Cloud Storage
The ascent of cloud computing and cloud information stores have been a forerunner and
facilitator to the rise of enormous information. Distributed computing is the commodification of processing
time and information stockpiling by method for institutionalized and standardized technologies. It has
critical advantages over more customary physical arrangements.
This prompts a situation for those responsible for big data ventures. How and which distributed
computing is the ideal decision for their computing needs, particularly if it is a major information venture?
These projects consistently show huge computing and capacity needs. In the meantime, business
partners and stakeholders expect quick, cheap, and tried and true solutions and task results.
Vertical scaling achieves elasticity by adding additional instances with each of them serving a
part of the demand. Software like Hadoop are specifically designed as distributed systems to take
advantage of vertical scaling. They process small independent tasks in massive parallel scale. Distributed
systems can also serve as data stores like NoSQL databases, e.g. Cassandra or HBase, or filesystems
like Hadoops HDFS. The interchangeability of the resources together with distributed software design
absorbs failure and equivalently scaling of virtual computing instances unperturbed. Spiking or bursting
demands can be accommodated just as well as personalities or continued growth.
Renting practically unlimited resources for short periods allows one-off or periodical projects at a
modest expense. Data mining and web crawling are great examples. It is conceivable to crawl huge web
sites with millions of pages in days or hours for a few hundred dollars or less. Inexpensive tiny virtual
instances with minimal CPU resources are ideal for this purpose since the majority of crawling the web is
spent waiting for IO resources. Instantiating thousands of these machines to achieve millions of requests
per day is easy and often costs less than a fraction of a cent per instance hour.
Of course, such mining operations should be mindful of the resources of the web sites or
application interfaces they mine, respect their terms, and not impede their service. A poorly planned data
mining operation is equivalent to a denial of service attack. Lastly, cloud computing is naturally a good fit
for storing and processing the big data accumulated form such operations (qubole.com, 2016).
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Running head: CLOUD-BASED SERVICES

Cloud Based Success Methodologies

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Best Practices for Extracting and Storing Data

warehouses (EDWs) that can be used.

glitch and you let them know.

Effects of Big Data and Cloud Storage

Cloudcomputinginsights.com, (2016). Cloud Computing Advantages and Disadvantages. Retrieved May

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