This is a required assignment worth 75 points (75-points/1000-points). Assignment must be submitted by the due date. No late assignments are allowed. Please discuss the following topics and provide substantive comments to at least two other posts. Select from the following list one topic and discuss. Your submission must be 400 words and be in APA format.The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 16-20  (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 16 topics:

• Define and describe total cost of ownership. List at least 10 items to consider when determining a data center’s total cost of ownership.
• Define and describe a capital expense. How are capital expenses different from operational expenses?
• Define and describe economies of scale and provide a cloud-based example.
• Define and describe “right sizing” as it pertains to cloud computing.
• Define Moore’s law and discus how it might influence cloud migration.
• Given company revenues of $2.5 million and expenses of $2.1 million, calculate the company’s profit and profit margin.

Chapter 17 topics:

• Compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and provide an example of each.
• Discuss why a designer should avoid selecting an implementation platform for as long as possible during the design process.
• Discuss various trade-offs a designer may need to make with respect to nonfunctional requirements.
• Discuss why the system maintenance phase is often the most expensive phase of the software development life cycle.

Chapter 18 topics:

• Using Yahoo! Pipes, create a pipe that displays the names of pizza restaurants within a given zip code.
• Using Google App Engine, create a page that displays the following Python script:

  print “Content-type: text/html\n\n”
  print “Cloud Computing, Chapter 18”

Chapter 19 topics:

• Define scalability.
• List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.
• Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.
• Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.
• Assume a site guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. How many minutes per year can the site be down?

Chapter 20 topics:

• List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.
• List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.
• List and describe five ways the cloud will influence the mobile application market, or vice versa.
• Discuss the importance of HTML 5.
• Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.
• List and describe three potential location-aware applications.
• List and describe five ways intelligent devices may work together.

Supplementary topic:

• Discuss the importance and function of a Content Delivery Network

Sai Priya

The time flies, and it has been two centuries that the world has been digitalized and people are browsing content every minute across the world. The web browsers utilize HTML5 to build the content that everyone is watching on their digital devices. Digital devices have also advanced, and the screen sizes come in multiple shapes and sizes, but HTML5 helps fit the content to all types of screens.

        Mobile applications are the primary source of content browsing in this new era. If a web page needs to be developed, it must fit a computer, laptop, iPhone and Android devices. The HTML5 has to support the type of devices, and the web page must be able to host multimedia content. HTML5 is now able to support all multimedia content and all types of devices. Usually, only flash-based development supports these features and is only available for laptops or computer types. HTML5 is the 20th-anniversary release from HTML dominating the flash-based development.

         HTML5 entry has made development ease and helps eliminate redundancy development of single use-case for various digital devices (Cai & Yang, 2020). HTML5 also has features for drawing 3D models and graphics for canvas objects, reducing the project cost for investing in other drawing software (Cai & Yang, 2020). IndexedDB can be used as a browser database by any HTML5 browser (Kimak, Ellman, & Jeremy, 2015). The necessity to use the indexedDB’s raised with the increase in the usage of the eCommerce. Customer loads product catalogue from the server wants to save the products or preferences of the products for a while. So with the need to understand the customer and improve their experience, better businesses started using indexedDB’s to store the user data at the client-side temporarily. Also, the security of the data has become an essential aspect for businesses. With the indexedDB’s help, all the present and future security threats can be minimized to store the client data at the client-side using the indexedDB (Kimak, Ellman, & Jeremy, 2015). The most exciting feature of the indexed DB is a NoSQL database and a key-value data taken from the browser. With the help of the WebSQL, the database can be queried and in the javascript. Different kinds of objects like javascript objects, files, blob type, images can be stored in this database without additional programming requirement. This flexibility of providing local storage,  persistence, good storage ability, and reducing the need for more network calls makes this the best storage for the browser.

References

Cai, L., & Yang, G. (2020). Development and Practice of Virtual Experiment Platform Based on Blender and HTML5–Taking Computer Assembly and Maintenance as An example*. Journal of physics, 32034.

Jamsa, K. (2012). Cloud ComputingSaaS, PaaS, IaaS, virtualization, business models, mobile, security and more. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Kimak, S., Ellman, & Jeremy. (2015). The role of HTML5 IndexedDB, the past, present and. 2015 10thInternational Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 379-383.

Monika

List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.

Let’s first understand what the Pareto principle is and where it came from. So, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, noted that 80% of Italy’s land is owned by only 20% of the people. After paying attention to this, he started observing this ratio and applying it in every area, and he called it as 80:20 cause-to-effect ratio, which means that 80% of the effects come from 20% of reasons or causes. This was then known as Pareto Principle (Mohamed,2018).

 1)This principle is applied pretty much in every field, we read the marketing funnel, and we see that the significant portion of the sales is driven by 20% of the customers; that is why customer retention is way more important than customer acquisition since people who are driving sales and will continue to do so are way more valuable for the company than the new customers whose shopping patterns for the brand is unknown.

2)In project management, we always see the 80% of the problems are caused by 20% of the projects, as a few projects are way harder than the others.

3)If we talk about management and the work done by a team, we always see that the top performers do most of the work, and they are way ahead of the others

4) In the case of software, 80% of the problems are usually created because 20% of the bugs

5) We had already discussed the customer’s acquisition, but we know that 80% of the sales are driven by 20% of the best-selling products if we talk about the products.

We are again using the same principle, the salespeople responsible for sales. Out of all the salespeople, only 20% of them are the best and bring a significant portion of the company’s revenue.

In customer satisfaction, we all would have seen that 80% of the complaints come from 20% of the customers (Subramanian,2018).

To sum up, the 80/20 rule can provide a solid structure for your sales and marketing goals. Whether it affects your customers, salesmen, or business resources, it may be meriting your while to choose the Pareto Principle in your company’s business performance.

6)If we see the wealth proportion, it’s clear that 80% of the wealth is owned by only 20% of the folks.

 
References

Subramanian, N., & Jeyaraj, A. (2018). Recent security challenges in cloud computing. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 71, 28-42.

Abdel-Basset, M., Mohamed, M., & Chang, V. (2018). NMCDA: A framework for evaluating cloud computing services. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 12-29.