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CClloouudd SSttoorraaggee Team 3: Team 3: Team 3: Team 3: MMMMaria Evans, Tam Huynh, aria Evans, Tam Huynh, aria Evans, Tam Huynh, aria Evans, Tam Huynh, Kieu Le, Kieu Le, Kieu Le, Kieu Le, Mark SinghMark SinghMark SinghMark Singh MIS 304 – Fall 2011 Professor: Fang Fang 12/13/201112/13/201112/13/201112/13/20112 | P a g e Table of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 3 History of the Cloud........................................................................................................................ 4 How Cloud Storage Works ............................................................................................................. 5 Benefits to Cloud Storage ............................................................................................................... 7 Disadvantages to Cloud Computing ............................................................................................. 11 Pricing ........................................................................................................................................... 14 The Future of the Cloud ................................................................................................................ 17 Works Cited .................................................................................................................................. 203 | P a g e OverviewOverviewOverviewOverview During this semester, we learned that successful businesses set themselves apart by utilizing information in an intelligent and effective manner with the help of technology. In chapter 9, Business Intelligence Systems, we learned that information systems generate huge amounts of operational data that contain patterns, relationships, clusters, and other information that often influence the decisions made by management, especially in the areas of planning and forecasting (Kroenke, 2011). Business intelligence systems produce such information from operational data. For businesses, being able to forecast is crucial as they develop strategies to have a competitive advantage and gain market share over other companies. In 2009, it was estimated that 12,000 gigabytes of data was created and stored per person worldwide (Kroenke, 2011). First, in order for any company to be able to analyze the data, it has to be stored somewhere that is both reliable and easily accessible to the company. So where do companies store their data in order to obtain the accurate data needed to forecast efficiently? The majority of the companies currently use servers located on site, housed in the same physical building as the corporation. A new way to store data has emerged that combines reliability and accessibility and it has been growing in popularity as a result, this solution is called cloud storage. According to SearchSotorage.com, “cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed and backed up remotely and made available to users over a network”. There are three kinds of cloud storage management to choose from: Public cloud storage, Private cloud storage, and Hybrid cloud storage (Cloud Storage, 2011). The public could is best used for unstructured data, the private could is used by users with more need for customization and more control over their data, the hybrid could is a combination of the private and public cloud for the users that have a need for both types (Cloud Storage, 2011). Any user can customize cloud4 | P a g e storage, whether it would be for a single user, small company or large company. The company would need to know exactly what the needs of the business are in order to assess the best use for cloud storage. Cloud storage has multiple benefits and some drawbacks. The purpose of this paper is to provide you with an analysis of the cloud storage from its begging to what the future holds for this new way to store data. History of the CloudHistory of the CloudHistory of the CloudHistory of the Cloud The cloud concept that has recently become the technological hot topic, is actually very old. It has roots dating back to the 1950’s and 1960’s. Computer scientist John McCarthy has been credited as one of the founding fathers of the cloud computing concept. In 1961, he was the first to publicly suggest (in a speech given to celebrate MIT's centennial) that computer time-sharing technology might lead to a future in which computing power and even specific applications could be sold through the utility business model (like water or electricity). This idea of a computer or information utility was very popular in the late 1960s, but faded by the mid-1990s. However, since 2000, the idea has resurfaced in new forms (see application service provider, grid computing, and cloud computing.) (Lxkp, 2011). A fellow computer scientist, J.C.R. Licklider, is also credited as one of the founding originators of the cloud concept. The idea of an "intergalactic computer network" was introduced in the sixties by J.C.R. Licklider, who was responsible for enabling the development of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in 1969. His vision was for everyone on the globe to be interconnected and accessing programs and data at any site, from anywhere, explained Margaret Lewis, product marketing director at AMD. "It is a vision that sounds a lot like what we are calling cloud computing" (Weekly, 2009).5 | P a g e The cloud concept wasn’t able to take off in the 1950’s and 1960’s because of technological limitations. Unfortunately, computer hardware and internet data speeds could not support the amount of data users wanted to send and receive. During the 1990’s, technology would finally begin to improve and because of that, it began to satisfy the requirements needed to start bringing cloud computing to life. Cloud computing for the masses had finally arrived. Cloud storage is a subcategory of the very complex cloud computing idea. It is a service model in which data is: maintained, managed and backed up remotely and made available to users over a network (typically the Internet). FilesAnywhere.com was one of the first companies to offer the cloud storage service. Their cloud storage service enabled users to store data on their servers from anywhere at any time, while also being


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