Managerial Information System 3

Proposal

Solange Figueiredo

Keller Graduate Institute

Business Problem Statement

The lack of time and resources for the Information Technology tasks can cause innumerous headaches for the business. In the modern world, there has been increased the need for faster access of company’s data remotely due to the nature of modern business. However, cloud storage technology adoption has lagged behind despite its enormous advantage to the development of business (Roebuck, 2012). Data Storage Company using traditional storage technologies has been faced with the daunting challenge of handling large amount of data from the client in a manner that enhances safety and ease of access (Mather et al, 2009). When disaster occurs such as Hurricane Katrina, the company had completely to start all over again because all data backups were destroyed with water. As a result, the most appropriate and ever-cheapening option for backups is the cloud storage.

Name of the Company

Recover Company is a data storage company that focuses on offering data storage services for different agencies located in New Orleans, Los Angeles.

Proposed Solution

Cloud storage technology will enable the company to keep data backups in a completely remote location that permit ease of access from anywhere via internet. Cloud storage is safe and cheap alternative for storing backups in the company datacenter or an offsite location (Yuan et al, 2013). Recover Company will only be required to contract hosting sites to lease the amount of storage required by the company instead of spending a lot in dedicated servers.

General Benefits

Recover Company will benefit from the solution because it will reduce the cost associated with maintenance, purchasing supporting servers since they will be handled by hosting company (Richtel, 2013). Moreover, the technology will cost the cost since the company IT expert will focus on optimizing the company rather than maintaining the backups. The technology will further provide the company’s client with ease access to the data though cheaper, efficient and inexpensive means (Yang et al, 2014).

Audience

The proposal will be submitted to the Recover Company management in order to consider adopting and investing on the technology since it will significantly reduce the cost of operations that are associated with maintenance of data backups through traditional storage technologies.

References

Mather, T., Kumaraswamy, S., &Latif, S. (2009). Cloud security and privacy. Beijing: O'Reilly.

Richtel, M. (2013). The cloud. New York: Harper.

Yang, K., &Jia, X. (2014). Security for cloud storage systems. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Yuan, D., Yang, Y., & Chen, J. (2013). Computation and storage in the cloud: Understanding the trade-offs. Chennai: Elsevier.