SWOT Analysis

Discuss about the ICT Services for Data Warehousing and Data Mining Over Cloud.

XYZ organization is an organization that is a software company that provides software services and solutions to its clients in the field of banking and healthcare. The organization deals with huge quantity of data on a per day basis and therefore has now decided to move the entire database to the cloud. The various operations related with the data will also be performed virtually over the private cloud of the organization. There are a number of details associated with this step and the same are covered in the report.

The decision that has been taken by the organization in terms of the migration of database services and operations over cloud will result in a lot many benefits for the organization and it would be necessary to look after a few operations in terms of the change management and the security issues and concerns that may come up.

The reason behind the change and the newly implemented service was the increased amount of data that the organization had to deal with on a per day basis. It was becoming impossible to keep an account of all the data that was involved with a single data repository and the internal database that was present in the organization. Also, the information that the organization deals with is associated with the banking and healthcare domain and both of these domains comprise of private and confidential data. It was necessary to come up with a solution that could allow the easy data storage along with easier operations that could be performed on the data (Takabi, 2016).

There are a number of warehousing and data mining operations that are executed by the organization to analyze the data and come up with meaningful information.

There are logical data warehouses that are possible with the involvement of the cloud database that allow data to be kept and viewed logically to understand the various properties of the data. The monitoring along with the maintenance of the data would also become easy in this case.

Data mining operations will also be performed with ease with the usage of cloud data storage and database.

There are a number of components that are involved with the cloud and the same gives rise to a number of security issues.

There are many advanced security mechanisms that are now possible and can be implemented in order to keep a check on the security concerns that are possible and have also been raised in the Threats section of the SWOT analysis that has been conducted above.

Cloud Database and Associated Database Operations

The essential effort to establish safety and components that must be received well so that there are no simple accesses provided to the aggressors at the initial step of security. These measures incorporate utilization of hostile to infection and other against malware programming alongside the establishment of firewall at each system way out and passage point. Propelled security systems as far as character and get to administration should likewise be guaranteed, for example, interruption discovery, interruption aversion, multi layer confirmation and numerous others. Organizing checking and arrange filters should likewise be utilized to keep any of the systems administration assaults and dangers. Cryptography and encryption are the measures that must be utilized to keep up the security of the information and data regardless of the possibility that the assailant succeeds in gaining the data and information (Sen, 2016).

Physical security is one of the measures that are regularly disregarded by the associations and firms that must never be overlooked to ensure the servers and physical access focuses. There must likewise be nonstop review and action logs that must be kept up to identify the exercises of the assets and workers that are connected with the association to put a mind the insider dangers that are very normal in the present situation (Sun, Zhang, Xiong, & Zhu, 2014).

Conclusion

The decision that has been taken by the organization is in sync with the latest demands of the technology. There will be a number of advantages for the organization in terms of the faster processing of operations, easier database administration, cost savings and also simpler maintenance and support activities. There may also be concerns and weaknesses that may come up in terms of the change management, training of the employees and the skill sets that will be required. The newly implemented services will also bring along a number of security threats in terms of data breaches, data loss, information leakage, malware threats and many others. These threats can be dealt with the establishment of stronger security mechanisms along with the countermeasures such as enhanced physical security, basic security and advanced security. Successful implementation of the cloud database will also add many values and bring along a number of opportunities in terms of competitive edge in the market, improved customer satisfaction and many others.

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