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Cloud Services for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) Market
Mind Commerce LLC, March 2012, Pages: 31
Cloud Services provide time and money saving benefits representing an attractive alternative solution for small to medium (SMB)businesses. As the cloud services become increasing more reliable cost effective, significantly more SMB will migrate to the cloud for core services and support.
This research evaluates different types and models of cloud services for SMB including benefits and challenges. The report presents case studies for each model of cloud services with real-world products. The report also analyzes advantages and disadvantages of cloud services and how can this affect small business operations.
Target Audience:
- Small and Medium Businesses
- Google and others providing Cloud services
- Office automation and productivity product/services companies
- Telecommunications and applications integration and professional services companies
Keywords: Small and Medium Business, SMB, Cloud Services, Cloud Services SMB, Cloud Services Small Business
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 OVERVIEW OF CLOUD SERVICES
2.1 BENEFITS OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
2.1.1 LOWER INITIAL INVESTMENT
2.1.2 EASIER TO MANAGE
2.1.3 PAY-AS-YOU-GO
2.1.4 SCALABILITY
2.1.5 DEPLOY FASTER
2.1.6 LOCATION INDEPENDENT
2.1.7 DEVICE INDEPENDENT
2.2 TYPES OF CLOUD SERVICES
2.2.1 PUBLIC CLOUD
2.2.2 PRIVATE CLOUD
2.2.3 HYBRID CLOUD
2.2.4 COMMUNITY CLOUD
2.3 CLOUD COMPUTING CHALLENGES
2.3.1 DATA PROTECTION
2.3.2 DATA RECOVERY AND AVAILABILITY
2.3.3 MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES
3 CLOUD COMPUTING MODELS
3.1 CLOUD SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS)
3.1.1 SAMPLE COMPANIES OFFERING SAAS
3.2 CLOUD PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS)
3.2.1 SAMPLE COMPANIES OFFERING PAAS
3.3 CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS)
3.3.1 SAMPLE COMPANIES OFFERING IAAS
3.4 COMMON BUILDING BLOCKS FOR CLOUD PLATFORMS
3.4.1 VIRTUALIZATION
3.4.2 WEB SERVICES
3.4.3 ORCHESTRATION / SERVICE BUS
3.4.4 CLIENTS-SIDE USER INTERFACES
4 SAAS CASE STUDY
4.1 MICROSOFT OFFICE LIVE
4.1.1 OFFICE LIVE WORKSPACE
4.1.2 OFFICE LIVE SMALL BUSINESS
4.1.3 LIVEMESH.COM
4.2 GOOGLE APPS
4.2.1 ADVANTAGES OF GOOGLE APPS
4.2.2 DISADVANTAGE OF GOOGLE APPS
5 PAAS CASE STUDIES
5.1 WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM
5.1.1 COMPONENTS OF WINDOWS AZURE
6 SAAS/PAAS CASE STUDY
6.1 SALESFORCE.COM
6.1.1 CUSTOMIZATION
6.1.2 RICH WEB SERVICES API
6.2 FORCE.COM PLATFORM
6.2.1 FORCE DATA PERSISTENCY LAYER
6.2.2 PLATFORM DATA SECURITY
6.3 GOOGLE APPENGINE
7 IAAS CASE STUDY
7.1 AMAZON WEB SERVICES
7.1.1 AMAZON EC2
7.1.2 AMAZON S3
7.1.3 AMAZON CLOUDFRONT
7.1.4 AMAZON SIMPLEDB
7.1.5 AMAZON SQS
7.1.6 AMAZON VPC
7.2 VMWARE VCLOUD
7.2.1 VCLOUD EXPRESS
8 CLOUD SERVICES OF SMB SWOT ANALYSIS
8.1 STRENGTHS
8.1.1 REDUCED COST
8.1.2 INCREASED STORAGE
8.1.3 FLEXIBILITY
8.2 THREATS
8.2.1 CLOUD SECURITY
8.2.2 DOWNTIME
8.2.3 CLOUD MANAGEABILITY
8.2.4 CLOUD STANDARDS
8.2.5 CLOUD GOVERNANCE
8.2.6 DATA IN THE CLOUD
9 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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