Analysis of cloud computing in an SME E-commerce Analysis

Author: Yao Tianxiang Xu Yun-hong Liu Shuangxia

Paper Keywords: cloud computing e-business for SMEs
Abstract: the development of e-commerce for SMEs to enhance its competitiveness, but there is less invested in e-commerce development, lack of IT personnel and other issues. Emergence of cloud computing can be a good solution to these problems. This paper first describes the cloud computing Technology, then analyzes the development of SMEs in e-commerce problems, the last of cloud computing Applications in the SME e-commerce Research.

With the development of electronic commerce, more and more small and medium enterprises recognize the importance of developing e-commerce e-commerce building gradually become an indispensable part of the development of SMEs, the SME e-commerce and vigorously promote the construction, increase their marketing channels , has become the important work of SMEs in the modern enterprise, e-commerce Application and management in the actual production occupies an important strategic position, but on the SMEs, e-commerce project development cycle is long, deploy high-risk, cost big investment, and data security is threatened, largely prohibitive to many decision makers of SMEs. the rapid development of cloud computing for the majority of SMEs in developing e-commerce has provided an opportunity.

1 About Cloud Computing
1.1 definition of cloud computing
The concept of cloud computing from Google's proposed cloud (Cloud Computing is grid computing, distributed computing, parallel computing, network storage, virtualization, load balancing and other traditional development of Computer Technology and network Technology convergence products.

Cloud computing is a new computing model that the IT resources, data, Application as a service to users through the Internet. Is also a cloud computing infrastructure management methodology, composition of a large number of computing resources pool of IT resources for the dynamic creation highly virtualized resources to users. This resource pool is called "cloud", "computing" refers to computing Applications in industries and markets, you can refer to all IT Applications.

Cloud computing to network resources, into the virtual machine to provide the necessary computing resources, which became a Computer network. In the use of network resources when users do not need to understand the "cloud" inside the structure and Technology, direct use related resources.

There are three levels of cloud computing, the first to provide physical resources, computing, storage, data, and of course the network, and secondly to provide new applications can be developed to provide new services, new solutions platform. The third is a kinds of services, software services, data, security.

1.2 Cloud properties
Cloud computing has the following features:
An ultra-large scale computing. Cloud has a very large scale, Google cloud computing already has more than 100 million servers, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and other "cloud" are hundreds of thousands of servers, enterprise "cloud" has a number of general hundreds or thousands of servers. "cloud" can give users an unprecedented computing power.

2) Virtualization of cloud computing to support users in any location, using a variety of terminal access to application services. The requested resources from the "cloud" rather than a fixed physical entity. Application in the "cloud" somewhere in the running, but in fact users do not understand, do not worry about the specific location of the application to run only requires a laptop or a cell phone, can be achieved through web services we need everything, even the super- calculate such a task.

3 high reliability and security of cloud computing provides the most reliable, most secure data storage center, the user need not worry about data loss, viruses and other troubles in the "cloud" the other side, there is the world's most professional team to help you manage Information, there is the world's most advanced data center to help you save the data. Meanwhile, the strict rights management strategies can help you to safely share with the people you specify the data so that you do not spend money to enjoy the best, most secure service.

4 versatility. Cloud computing is not for a specific application in the cloud can be constructed under the support of the ever-changing applications, with a "cloud" can support different applications running.

5 dynamic scalability. "Cloud" the size of dynamically scalable to meet the growing size of applications and user needs.

6-demand service, reduce costs. "Cloud" is a huge resource pool, you pay-as-needed use in scenarios such as massive data processing, cloud computing PC cluster distributed approach to replace miniComputers added disk array centralized approach, can effectively reduce the construction costs, "cloud" automated centralized management of large numbers of business without the burden of increasingly high cost of data center management, cloud versatility utilization of resources increased dramatically compared to traditional systems, so users can fully enjoy the cloud of low-cost advantage.

2 problems in developing e-commerce for SMEs
In recent years, the majority of our SMEs understand the importance of the future development of e-commerce and e-commerce website development and achieved some success, but the SME e-commerce, either from the level of resource utilization, or e-commerce infrastructure also at a lower level of the stage, and therefore, the development of e-commerce of SMEs in China are still many problems.

1 pairs of lack of understanding of e-commerce. Many SMEs e-commerce knowledge of the decision-makers do not understand that the development of e-commerce is chasing the trend, the actual significance. Some leaders even opposed the development of e-commerce still the focus of competition located in the physical market, not fully aware of the knowledge economy to seize the virtual market, the necessary network Information. some understanding of some of the leading e-commerce e-commerce business, there are one-sided understanding of the problem, that is to build a business e-commerce portal website, in order to promote corporate image, did not realize e-commerce to bring a broad business development opportunities because of this phenomenon abound, leading to the development of SMEs in a small number of e-commerce businesses, mainly in big cities and the SME not have their own business portal for SMEs to understand the way less product Information, so that SMEs in the Information age will be eliminated.

2 lack of capital investment. Business development e-commerce requires a lot of money for software and hardware facilities, and the process is lengthy. Lack of capital reserves for the majority of SMEs, in the initial investment capital to achieve results is not immediate, it will result in the latter part of the funds shortage.

3 lack of planning the development of e-commerce e-commerce platform for the construction needs of the overall layout and planning, based on long-term development and co-development is an important foundation for building e-commerce, while the majority of SMEs in e-commerce in China is currently building its planning process, the prevalence of electronic ill-considered business security, e-commerce management and e-commerce standard is standardization and other issues.

4 Lack of professional and technical personnel. The development of e-commerce, Information engineering and management engineering of the organic integration, to play the role of e-commerce business to the maximum, the need for a group of professional information Technology support staff, professional information in addition to information system itself characteristics, but also must understand the characteristics of the operation of the enterprise itself, the ability to run enterprise information systems with a good combination because of the strength of SMEs by business, such as capital, reward and punishment system, management and other constraints, it is difficult to attract and train thinker and management, but also understands the complexities of technology.

3 cloud computing in an SME E-commerce
Cloud computing applications in the SME e-commerce, e-commerce can be an effective solution to the development of SMEs are facing a shortage of funds, lack of professional and technical personnel, security and other issues. Links to free download http://www.hi138.com 1) cloud computing reduces the cost of building e-commerce for SMEs. According to their actual needs of SMEs to the cloud provider or hire their own custom applications, through the use of Web-based leasing software to manage business activities, while cloud computing provider will deploy a unified application software on the server or server cluster, providing software to small and medium enterprises through the Internet, and is responsible for managing and maintaining software in this mode, the SMEs did not like the traditional mode of investment for building e-commerce spend a lot of the necessary hardware, software, technical personnel, while only spending a certain rental services, has access to the Internet as long as the terminal device, a browser , the terminal equipment to access the Internet through the Internet will be able to enjoy the appropriate hardware, software and maintenance services, and, in the "cloud" the other side, a professional information technology staff to help maintain hardware, software installation and upgrades, so do not worry the use of application software is the latest version, enjoy the right to use the software and continuous upgrades.

2 cloud computing to reduce the personnel of SMEs to the requirements of professional information technology of cloud computing development environment, server platforms, hardware and other services to small and medium enterprises, SMEs in the cloud based on the provider's infrastructure development program. Cloud computing give small and medium enterprises to bring more performance, more personalized service, providing custom developed middleware platform for SMEs to provide application development, database, application server, application services.

SMEs to use cloud computing services, on the less demanding professional information technology staff, technical staff can develop without any programming for their own business management software, and run online immediately. In addition, cloud computing service investment and implementation costs low, small and medium enterprises do not need to finance the purchase of servers and software development.

3 cloud computing to ensure data security e-commerce website With the rapid development of Computer networks, network viruses and hackers more and more malicious invasion of enterprise data storage security and reliability is threatened. Enterprise information security issues by troubled more and more on information security investment is also growing the SME to use cloud computing, data stored in the "cloud" side of cloud computing for small and medium e-commerce site provides reliable, secure data storage, SMEs do not have to worry about hackers and viruses because due to hardware failure or data loss caused the problem.

4 use cloud computing to achieve resource sharing of information goods At present, SMEs in China has been building a lot of e-commerce website product information resources. Cloud computing will be applied to SME e-commerce sites, information resources, goods can be stored in the "cloud", which is more conducive to product information resources sharing. SME e-commerce site or product sales staff can help cloud computing strong coordination ability to achieve product information, build. scalability cloud computing is very strong, a number of e-commerce website product information added to a common resource, "cloud" in a single e-commerce sites can reduce the time and money on investment, to achieve a real sense of sharing of resources.

4 Conclusion
The rapid development of cloud computing technology, one is virtual, data-intensive computing technology development results on the other hand is constantly enrich the development of Internet applications inevitable. Today, although the industry standard in cloud computing, data security, services quality and application software are faced with various problems, the lack of a unified Research framework system, but it has been the development of e-commerce has had a profound impact on how cloud computing the future impact of e-commerce development, how to make it in e-commerce features and advantages of the field, also need sufficient time to verify in practice.

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