Many organizations have migrated to the cloud to enjoy the ease of employing software, sharing data, stream-lining their daily operations and most importantly, save a lot of money on overhead. A good example of an organization benefitting from cloud migration would be Amazon’s case study on their system’s software named Blackboard Learn. Having satellite offices spread-out over a wide area and still connected to the same network that allows this powerful software to be beneficial to all kinds of learning organizations. The cloud allows the vendor to deploy their software from only 29 data centers; which provide more than 100 million users on over 16,000 clients in 90 countries access! The cloud-enabled a few teams of developers to change the world standard practically overnight. Many organizations also benefit from data pooling after migration to be surprising. Simple things like schedules, payroll, inventory, accounts payable, etc. are collectively accessed seamlessly and instantaneously from every individual client under the organization’s domain.
New improvements to data pooling can also be expressed in another case study of IBM cloud. IBM has always pooled data, but now they offer it in their cloud services built on the world’s most open source projects. It has platform software which can be tailored to suit any organization and helps developers build amazing API services faster by having the software already pre-installed with a developer dashboard as a platform. Combining software and the cloud offers software as a service that’s very useful and cheap. Organizations can save money on software licensing by paying for volumized license keys rather than a retail price because the software can be run and deployed in the organization’s private network. There’s another case study of Kellogg’s company that was trying to manage its marketing cost with real-time sales. Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud offers Kellogg’s connection to their data centers to allow Amazon’s CloudWatch to monitor each department based on constants and that helps Kellogg’s marketing to streamline costs. Amazon offers a Trade and Promotions Management software as a service.
Deploying a pool of data on the cloud is an anomaly. Security, network, read and wrote speeds are also improving at an impressive rate. Tricks of the trade are automated and failproof in today’s applications. New improvements to Windows Server and other NOSs on private clouds get this benefit even better today, implementing port control, MAC/I. P white lists, access control, permissions, inheritance, and even individual user account encryption offering a proxy session that keeps data secure from the outside. Security is currently being improved upon as average users usually do not know how to set up a proxy or spoof their MAC address, but emerging applications are addressing security exploits and allowing admin to close loopholes like closing open, unused ports or easily forwarding ports without having to use the command line terminal.
Another case study that reflects security improvements is Avira’s testimony from their customer successes. Avira hosts an infrastructure on AWS that utilizes Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud with a relational database service to hold encryption keys, back-up data, save configurations and analytics. It’s a function is to upload and scan all files for potential threats before saving them to the local client device. Other than minor security issues or a non-existent downtime, the cloud is king. The cloud offers scalability, elasticity, wide availability, and saves businesses a lot of money on network hardware and maintenance. The cloud also saves on software licensing by offering companies software as a service or platform to provide them with advanced applications at a reduced rate. Offsite storage is another huge benefit for cloud users. Back-ups have never been more failsafe when using offsite storage and raid arrays that mirror data as an option to keep data retention redundant. The cloud uses volumized storage in separated server farms that expand and contract with the amount of data storage desired, allowing redundancy, encryption and lower cost to any organization. The cost savings and efficiency become a priceless commodity to any diverse organization to benefit from and I recommend migrating to the cloud if you haven’t already.
Sources:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/avira/
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/blackboard/
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace?lnk=mp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA
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