- Case Study Of Cloud Computing Royal Mail Subject Of Case Study Using Cloud Computing For Effective Communication Amon 1 (515.78 KiB) Viewed 74 times
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Setting up an on-premiseinfrastructure for application deployment and scaling it to meetthe rising demands of the application is expensive and full ofhassles. To address the problems associated with deploying theirapplication in an on-premise infrastructure and for saving therelated costs, business organizations are preferring cloudcomputing platforms for application deployment.
AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM are themost popular cloud computing platforms nowadays for applicationdeployment and data storage. As per the findings of SynergyResearch Group in 2017, AWS (Amazon Web Services) was the leaderwith 34% share of all cloud market while Microsoft, Google and IBMhad a share of 11%, 8% and 6% respectively.
If you are contemplating switching toa cloud computing platform for deploying your application, then youalso need to give attention to scaling in cloud computing.
Scaling in cloud computing helps yourun your application on an increasingly large scale. But to achieveit, you need to think and plan about it from the beginning; rightwhen you are making its architecture and designing it.
Case Study: Company ABCD hasbeen using Cloud Computing from the beginning of their business.Since business is Blooming, they are planning to scale their cloud.Company ABCD is running a business that deals with a very hightraffic spikes every day. Therefore, when they decide to move theyneed to make sure that any scalability method chosen must beaccomplished without any downtime if possible. Or in other word thescaling method must have the high availability of services. CompanyABCD also looking into easier and automatic management when theircloud has been scale.
Question: Based on the casestudy below, suggest between One form the two types of the CloudScaling method available (Vertical & Horizontal). Justify youranswer in term of why you choose that particular method forscaling, what is the advantages (Users and response time), what isthe limitations and your own point that you think isappropriate.
Case-Study of Cloud Computing- Royal Mail • Subject of Case-Study:Using Cloud Computing for effective communication among staff. • Reason for using Cloud Computing:Reducing the cost made after communication for 28,000 employees and to provide advance features and interface of e-mail services to their employees. Royal mail group, a postal service in U.K, is the only government organization in U.K that serves over 24 million customers through its 12000 post offices and 3000 separate processing sites. Its logistics systems and parcel-force worldwide handles around 404 million parcel a year. And to do this they need an effective communicative medium. They have recognized the advantage of Cloud Computing and implemented it to their system. It has shown an outstanding performance in inter-communication. Before moving on to Cloud system, the organization was struggling with the out-of-date software, and due to which the operational efficiency was getting compromised. As soon as the organization switched on to Cloud System, 28000 employees were supplied with their new collaboration suite, giving them access to tools such as instant messaging and presence awareness. The employees got more storage place than on local server. The employees became much more productive. Looking to the success of Cloud Computing in e-mail services and communication .The second strategic move of Royal Mail Group, was to migrating from physical servers to virtual servers, upto 400 servers to create a private cloud based on Microsoft hyper V. This would give a fresh look and additional space to their employees desktop and also provides latest modern exchange environment. The hyper V project by RMG's (Royal Mail Group) is estimated to save around 1.8 million pound for them in future and will increase the efficiency of the organization's internal IT system.