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6-Towards A Virtual Company
6-Towards A Virtual Company
Discussion
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– https://fire-engine-red.com/
High
Ideal position
Current Position
Low
Customer Service
Sales
Administration
Marketing
Manufacturing
CONTRACTORS
Internet
PARTNERS
/
BUSINESS OUTSOURCEES
Transportation
Cloud
Entrepreneur
(CEO)
REMOTE
EMPLOYEES
Human Resources
Finance
Accounting IT Services
Building a virtual company
Examples
SaaS Technologies and Services
Underlying Technology
Web Service
Services
Web-based Applications
• General applications
• Business applications
• Scientific applications
• Government applications
Web Portal
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
PaaS provides all of the facilities required to support the
complete life cycle of building and delivering web
applications and services entirely from the Internet – From
operating systems to configuration management tools.
Examples
PaaS Technologies and Services
Underlying Technology
Runtime Environment
Services
Programming IDE
• Programming APIs
• Development tools
System Control Interface
• Policy based approach
• Workflow based approach
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
IaaS is the delivery of technology infrastructure as an on
demand scalable service through the internet – from
computational capacity on servers and telecommunication
bandwidth on network devices to data storage on shared
drives.
Examples
IaaS Technologies and Services
Underlying Technologies
Server Virtualization
Storage Virtualization
Network Virtualization
Services
Resource Management Interface
System Monitoring Interface
Cloud Deployment Models
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
e
Enterpris
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Private Cloud
Available within an enterprise with restricted
access to its direct stakeholders.
Hosted by the enterprise or a third party.
SaaS
se
PaaS Enterpri
IaaS
Hybrid Cloud
A composition of both public and private
clouds.
SaaS
se
PaaS Enterpri
IaaS
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Choosing between Public and Private Clouds
Public Cloud Private Cloud
Scalability/Flexibility
Cost Savings
Application Commoditization
Security Issues
Privacy Policies
Terms of Service
Investment Risk Enterprise takes the risk Cloud Reduces the risk
Mainframe
Computing
REF - http://www.soliantconsulting.com
How the Cloud Transformed Business
of companies
47% migrate to cloud
for cost purpose.
REF - https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/cloud-computing-statistics/#gref
Re-allocation of IT expenditures
Most companies today spend roughly 80% of their IT budget on
operations and maintenance.
DATACENTER COSTS
Plan 5%
Deploy 10%
Cloud Computing reduces
20%
Operate 25% Labor costs
50%
Labor
Expense Support 10%
80%
50% Facilities 7%
Political
Geo-
Cultural
economical
Political Challenges
Many countries regulate or prohibit the transfer of data
across their national boundaries
Political philosophies