Will Cloud Computing Be the Next Revolution in Information Technology?
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Will Cloud Computing Be The Next Revolution in Information Technology?
Justin Keeney
December 12, 2011
BMIS 607 Section 702
Information technology has revolutionized the way companies do business from running their logistics and processing customer orders online. This paper will explore if the phenomenon of cloud computing will revolutionize how information technology is leveraged in the near future. Cloud computing has recently come into its own, with commercials from Microsoft coining the term, “to the cloud.” The author intends to answer what is the cloud? What are the benefits of the cloud? How does the cloud impact businesses as well as every day consumers? If the cloud is so great, why isn’t everyone in the cloud? Is this just a fad technology or will the cloud truly revolutionize the way we do business and interact with our devices?
So what is cloud computing in the first place? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (2011) defines cloud computing as, “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” A more diluted and pointed definition come from Bowers (2011), “Cloud computing is a catchy term that refers to delivering hosted services over the internet” (p. 45). The literature describes cloud services as a pyramid with three distinct types of computing. The first type is software as a service or (SaaS). This is when software or an application is hosted by a service provider in which people can access it through the internet. SaaS eliminates the need to install and maintain the software on the local computers as it becomes supported by the cloud service (Wang et al., 2010). The main benefit of SaaS is that it allows the provider to offer an application to thousands of people through a browser....
