ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cloud Computing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Ted Rogers

Document Summary

Cloud computing services are a huge benefit to a majority of it related companies. Cloud computing services also helps solve the problem of hiring a large amount of staff, and overall just helps companies save a lot of money in terms of hardware upgrades, operating systems, and licensing and service fees. Cloud computing services eliminates the need for these costs. Cloud computing is a service that requires an internet connection to run. Without it, it ceases to exist, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of this there s a (cid:373)ajor (cid:374)eed for a sta(cid:271)le a(cid:374)d effi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)et (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374). However even with a reliable internet connection there is still a risk of it timing out, which can be a major liability in a company, because it can deter traffic coming into your site. Moreover, when buying a cloud computing service, the responsibility of data storage lies in a third party, which most organizations may not enjoy.