- Case Study Of Cloud Computing Royal Mail Subject Of Case Study Using Cloud Computing For Effective Communication Among 1 (643.52 KiB) Viewed 43 times
Setting up an on-premise infrastructure for applicationdeployment and scaling it to meet the rising demands of theapplication is expensive and full of hassles. To address theproblems associated with deploying their application in anon-premise infrastructure and for saving the related costs,business organizations are preferring cloud computing platforms forapplication deployment.
If you are contemplating switching to a cloud computing platformfor deploying your application, then you also need to giveattention to scaling in cloud computing.
Scaling in cloud computing helps you run your application on anincreasingly large scale. But to achieve it, you need to think andplan about it from the beginning; right when you are making itsarchitecture and designing it.
AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM are the most popular cloudcomputing platforms nowadays for application deployment and datastorage. As per the findings of Synergy Research Group in 2017, AWS(Amazon Web Services) was the leader with 34% share of all cloudmarket while Microsoft, Google and IBM had a share of 11%, 8% and6% respectively.
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 Before moving on to Cloud system, the organization was struggling with the out-of-date software, and due to which the operational efficiency was getting compromised.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. b) From the case study above, Royal Mail UK has successfully implemented Cloud Computing. However, they don't mention the architecture design that has been used. As a Software Architect, could you predict the Cloud services model and the deployment model that can be used in this case study. Identify and explain your answer clearly. ANSWER: [8 marks]