Question 1

This case study illustrates the potential benefits and risks associated with the migration
of an IT system in the oil & gas industry from an in-house data center to Amazon EC2
from a broad variety of stakeholder perspectives across the enterprise, thus
transcending the typical, yet narrow, financial and technical analysis offered by
providers. Explain in details FIVE [5] benefits of cloud based applications. You may use
any of the following commercially available cloud service to support your answer.



Question 2
Sikim Securities uses Intel Xeon processor E5 series to boost the speed and stability
of its cloud computing system and keep pace with fast securities transactions. List all
the possibility of challenges and business values in this case study.




Question 3
Cloud computing moves data storages further away from the end user. Explain in
details why this architecture is advantages in todays environments.