4. Advantages of the Cloud
Security - Major cloud providers like the Drop box,
Amazon Cloud Service, and GoGrid among others have each
suffered from security breaches that have negatively
impacted their customers’ reputations and bottom lines.
Revenue Generation - There are many opportunities to
generate income through cloud computing.
Virtualization - The ability to virtualize services
maximizes hardware usage, ultimately reducing costs and
complexity.
Researchers would collaborate more effectively by having
in place a common portal connected to on line libraries.
Resultant Innovation would benefit industry while local
without capacity to acquire systems would enjoy them freely
without any upfront investment. Data and resources are the
most treasonable items to an organization and hosting them
to 3rd parties would pose a challenge. It is therefore an
internal responsibility to manage this risk. Therefore until
more is done on the public cloud infrastructures, the private
cloud still remains the most secure.
Well developed content can only be coordinated by
government and provision of the same to the stakeholders is
the way to go. As opposed to the standalone laptops which
would suffer the brunt of being carried daily in terms of wear
and tear and loss. This framework has secure infrastructure
and only can be accessed from cheap terminals. It is intended
that Green IT be embraced by the use of solar powered VDIs
and the content hosted in green datacenters. This framework
hopes to be integrated to the e-government system which
would impressively put the country forward in terms of
research and service delivery.