Cloud Computing and its impact on the IT industry and beyond
- Cloud Computing having the potential to transform the IT industry.
- Report focuses on the new concepts brought about to the industry.
- Impacts / Influences to many businesses and consumers
- Introduction of Cloud Computing
- New aspects, key features, different types of cloud computing
- Origin of cloud computing: How it came about.
- Times before the emergence of cloud computing (Issues)
- Use of thumb drives, CDs, manual files
- Lack of convenience
- Appearance of cloud computing in many businesses and consumers’ private usage
- Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Dropbox, GoogleDocs phenomenon
- Challenges towards the growth of cloud computing
- Technical obstacles to the adoption of Cloud Computing
- The need for 24/7 support, and huge amount of data storage space
- Physical space for data centers
- Technical obstacles to the growth of Cloud Computing
- Unpredictable performance
- Costs of data transfer VS manual shipping of hard disks
- Policy and business obstacles to the adoption of Cloud Computing
- Trust Issues (of security & privacy)
- Legal aspects
- New opportunities sprouting after cloud computing
- Widespread of mobile applications to leech on
- Rise of demand for business analytics (freeing up resources away from transaction processing)
- New business ideas of providing data integration
Observations for Discussion and Analysis
- Reasons for increase in adopting cloud computing technology
- Achieving Economies of Scales through efficient use of hardware
- Receptiveness of “pay-as-you-go” model
- Shifting the risks through elasticity (of resource utilization)
- Shift of demand for IT administrators (system/database) to IT business analytics
- Cloud computing removes the need for on-site maintenance
- Affects the way educational institutions would look at IT degrees
- Very high dependencies on the data centers
- Detailed risk assessments needed for location of data centers
- Natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis) main factor for choice of location
- Organizations should not have 100% dependancies on cloud computing services
- The need of business continuity plans
- Would this lead to any redundancy issues?
- Phasing out of PCs
- Removal of desktops at home, being obsolete à Operating Systems through SaaS
- Changes in prices of technological products due to lesser resource utilization
- Reduction of costs of gadgets = more widespread use of mobile gadgets
- Privacy issue a constant issue to be improved on for increased adoption
- Legal aspects of cloud computing to be revised on par with personal data privacy
Conclusion
- The world should embrace technology advances
- Important to have a balance between risk management and leeching on the advantages of such technology (Cloud Computing)
- Late adoption of new technology would only lead to more problems and loss of competitive advantage
- Emergence of cloud computing shows how aware we must be of technological changes and how it will affect us as consumers, business owners and workers (especially in the IT industry)
2 comments:
Hey Yukai!
Nice topic about cloud computing! :) Interesting and one of the more current technology.
I think your outline's very concise and clear. It is easy to flow through the content and understand what your main points are. The points made are relevant and significant.
These are some of the stuff maybe you can consider?
There are some rather technical terms (like SaaS and Paas), so you might need to explain in a more layman term (for more "IT-illiterate" people like me) what they mean.
In addition, maybe you can bring in the impacts cloud computing have on other components of society. For example, the impacts it has in schools and the specific individual (like the benefits/problems faced). Maybe can also talk about the impacts on other types of aspect such as cultural or political or social?
I'm not sure about this, but maybe you can add there might be a greater presence of cyber-terrorism in the future as data are now all at the same platform. I'm uncertain how evident this will be in terms of cloud computing though.
Anyway, I really like your topic. Well done! Seems that you already know alot about it already! haha. Good luck with your draft! :)
Siew Lin
Hey Yukai!
Superbly detailed outline you have there. Great job.
Here are some points you may want to consider:
1. Maybe you can evaluate on the use of Cloud Computing now. Apple launched iCloud, so maybe you can touch on the pros and the cons of it; the changes it has on all of us today.
2. I read in the newspapers today that the Taliban are actually engaging in technological warfare in which that they shut down the network for a few hours as a disturbance. Maybe you can look into what are some of the risks of cloud computing will involve, will we give terrorists groups another way of disrupting our way for lives because we are so dependent on it?
Yepp thats all I have!
See you in class :)
Jessie
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