Imagine that you have been hired by ABC, Inc., a global company, to propose a cl
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Question
Imagine that you have been hired by ABC, Inc., a global company, to propose a cloud-based storage service appropriate for a globalized company to use to back up their machines.
Describe the characteristics of cloud-based storage.
Describe the characteristics and availability OS (such as Windows, MacOS, or Linux) and specific hardware (computer type) of cloud-based storage backup systems.
Compare backup systems with storage systems.
Identify cost-effective solutions for cloud-based storage systems.
Choose a cloud-based provider for ABC, Inc.
Describe how the concepts and activities presented in the labs this week relate to this assignment.
Explanation / Answer
The various characteristics of cloud-based storage are as follows:
1) Cloud based storage provide high availability of your web applications as all the applications data will be on cloud.
2) Its avoid the problem of single failure, if your data disk fails then you have your data saved on cloud storage.
3) Fast access and can be accessed from various geo-locations.
4) Withh cloud-base storage, we can have a storage on cloud and from that storage, we can create multiple virtual machines that can be used by multiple users.
If we talk about the storage system then it can be used for storing the backup's as well. Storage system can be used for storing applications data as well as the backups of various activities. While Backup Systems are used for keeping the backup only. And this backup can be used in case of recovery.
If we talk about the cost effective solutions then we would recommend "Public cloud storage services", due to following reasons:
1) Its mostly suited for unstructured data.
2) Its suitable in various cases where storage data is spread over various geo-locations.
3) Flexible payment option supported, Users can pay use based also.
For ABC, the best cloud based provider will be "Amazon web services Public cloud". Its one of the best