Should Business Move to the Cloud?

Should Business Move to the Cloud?

INTRODUCTION (5 Points)

This case mainly focuses on a problem to all the businesses. Businesses need to make a right decision whether they take cloud computing system or not. If so, how to most effectively use the cloud to enhance their business is of great significance issue to them. AWS provides subscribing companies with flexible computing power and data storage, as well as data management, messaging, payment, and other services that can be used together or individually as the business requires. In this case, the author exerts Zynga and InterContinental Hotels to illustrate advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing system. From these two examples, we can learn about this system deeply.

ISSUES/PROBLEMS (20 Points)

• Zynga is a good example of a company using cloud computing to improve its business in a new way. When Zynga releases a new game, however, it has no way of knowing what amount of computing resources to dedicate to the game. Because of uncertainty surrounding resource usage for new game launches, Zynga has used Amazon’s cloud computing platform to launch new offerings.

• Whether Zynga will migrate fully to its own private cloud or its own infrastructure, and move away from Amazon Web Services, is an open issue. Amazon Web services, which had an outrage for several hours in April that made it impossible for users to log into some of Zynga’s games.

• Owning data centers also comes with risks. InterContinental Hotels has revamped its infrastructure to include both private and public cloud usage. Here is a problem how to effectively allocate systems to private part or public part.

• AWS is a threat to IBM, Cisco, and other traditional data center giants.

• Cloud reliability and security, and this remain a major barrier to widespread cloud adoption. A simple network configuration error caused a major multiday service outrage in Amazon Web Services.

SOLUTIONS (Taken by the company) (15 Points)...