Sohan Shirodkar

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EXPERIMENT – 3

INTRODUCTION:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) hosts infrastructure on the public cloud and private cloud instead of in a
traditional on-premises data centre. The infrastructure is delivered to customers on demand while being fully
managed by the service provider.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the
internet. It’s one of the three types of cloud services, along with software as a service (SaaS), platform as a
service (PaaS). IaaS quickly scales up and down with demand, letting you pay only for what you use. It helps
you avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other datacentre
infrastructure. Each resource is offered as a separate service component, and you only need to rent a
particular one for as long as you need it. A cloud computing service provider, such as Azure, manages the
infrastructure, while you purchase, install, configure, and manage your own software—operating systems,
middleware, and applications.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service where enterprises rent or lease servers for
compute and storage in the cloud. Users can run any operating system or applications on the rented servers
without the maintenance and operating costs of those servers. Other advantages of Infrastructure as a Service
include giving customers access to servers in geographic locations close to their end users. IaaS automatically
scales, both up and down, depending on demand and provides guaranteed service-level agreement (SLA) both
in terms of uptime and performance. It eliminates the need to manually provision and manage physical servers
in data centres.
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BENEFITS:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can be more efficient for an enterprise than owning and managing its own
infrastructure. New applications can be tested with an IaaS provider instead of acquiring the infrastructure for
the test.

Eliminates capital expense and reduces ongoing cost. IaaS sidesteps the upfront expense of setting up and
managing an onsite datacentre, making it an economical option for start-ups and businesses testing new ideas.

Improves business continuity and disaster recovery. Achieving high availability, business continuity, and
disaster recovery is expensive, since it requires a significant amount of technology and staff. But with the right
service level agreement (SLA) in place, IaaS can reduce this cost and access applications and data as usual
during a disaster or outage.

Innovate rapidly. As soon as you’ve decided to launch a new product or initiative, the necessary computing
infrastructure can be ready in minutes or hours, rather than the days or weeks—and sometimes months—it
could take to set up internally.

Respond quicker to shifting business conditions. IaaS enables you to quickly scale up resources to
accommodate spikes in demand for your application— during the holidays, for example—then scale resources
back down again when activity decreases to save money.

Focus on your core business. IaaS frees up your team to focus on your organization’s core business rather than
on IT infrastructure.

Increase stability, reliability, and supportability. With IaaS there’s no need to maintain and upgrade software
and hardware or troubleshoot equipment problems. With the appropriate agreement in place, the service
provider assures that your infrastructure is reliable and meets SLAs.

Better security. With the appropriate service agreement, a cloud service provider can provide security for your
applications and data that may be better than what you can attain in-house.

Gets new apps to users faster. Because you don’t need to first set up the infrastructure before you can develop
and deliver apps, you can get them to users faster with IaaS.

Other advantages of infrastructure-as-a-service include:

• Continuity and disaster recovery — Cloud service in different locations allows access to applications and data
during a disaster or outage.

• Faster scaling — Quickly, scale up and down resources according to application demand in all categories of
cloud computing.

• Core focus — IaaS allows enterprises to focus more on core business activities instead of IT infrastructure
and computing resources.

IAAS USING OWNCLOUD:

OwnCloud is as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud service. With it you can store your files, folders,
contacts, photo galleries, calendars and more on your own servers. You can then access that storage from
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your mobile device, your desktop, or a Web browser. You can also sync your data with local devices and share
your data either with the world at large or specific, approved users.

That should sound quite familiar. It's what most public IaaS services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and
SkyDrive promise and deliver. It's also what you build for yourself with such IaaS software stacks as Azure,
Eucalyptus, and OpenStack. What OwnCloud brings to the table is that it makes it easy for you to set-up a
private IaaS cloud.

OwnCloud 5.0 comes with the following new features:

➢ Improved authentication directory support: Administrators can now integrate ownCloud users with
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory (AD) directories.
➢ AES encryption: As soon as files are transferred to the server, the files are encrypted and stored,
making it unreadable to any but the owner of the file using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
➢ Sync and share from home directories: Enterprise administrators can now integrate ownCloud with
existing user home directories, making sync and share a seamless extension of existing user storage.
➢ Provision ownCloud with existing automation tools: User provisioning can now be integrated into
existing data center automation tools through the provisioning application programming interface
(API), allowing external systems to trigger authenticated user provisioning and reporting activities.
This allows ownCloud to fold into existing management processes, and allows IT to better leverage
past investments with their file sync and share.
➢ Store files in external storage repositories: Enterprises can now integrate ownCloud with existing file
stores, providing a single interface for user access to all of their documents. This includes integration
with on-site storage in SWIFT (the OpenStack Object Store), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
repositories, and other on-site servers, as well as optional integration with public cloud-based SWIFT
and S3 storage in a hybrid cloud scenario.

Last, but not least, it comes with new and easier to use front-ends and clients for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows,
Android and iOS.
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INSTALLATION:
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CONCLUSION:
Finally, from this experiment we acquire a thorough knowledge on the concept of Infrastructure as a Service.
We have implemented it and learnt the benefits and uses of IAAS . Thus, with this we have managed to
understand IAAS using own cloud.