BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in

Computing
Unit 16: Cloud Computing

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Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2

2. Fundamentals of Cloud Computing and Architecture...........................................................3

2.1 Evolution of Cloud Computing........................................................................................3

2.2 Fundamentals of cloud computing...................................................................................4

3. Evaluations.............................................................................................................................5

3.1 Deployment models.........................................................................................................5

3.2 Chosen model for deployment.........................................................................................6

3.3 Service models.................................................................................................................7

3,4 Key Drivers......................................................................................................................7

4. Problems arise on Cloud Computing Platform and its environment with appropriate
solution.....................................................................................................................................12

5. Conclusion............................................................................................................................15

6. References............................................................................................................................16

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1. Introduction
The presented report provides its readers with efficient and effective discussions with regards
to the various benefits which can be experienced by a company upon the implementation of
services within the cloud computing throughout the respective infrastructure. Also, the report
results discussions regarding the multiple different models utilise towards the implementation
of cloud computing along with the various approach towards its incorporation.

The necessity for the implementation of cloud computing services was experienced by the
respective company due to the mitigation of various issues faced as well as to provide an
optimum level of sophistication among the conducting of procedures. Furthermore, the
company also aims to words employing and efficient medium of communication along with
the elimination of any hindrances as well as the smoothed transfer of files as well as data
among the different departments which has been established inside the respective company.
the company also aims for implementing such and infrastructure utilising the cloud
computing services so that the authorised parties and are able to access as well as share data
from even a remote location thus making the functionalities truly mobile along with the
implementation of such an infrastructure that it could be access from mobile phones.

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2. Fundamentals of Cloud Computing and Architecture
2.1 Evolution of Cloud Computing
The history of cloud computing could be traced back some time for the past decade, within
which the aspect of cloud computing had initiated towards developing into a giant as well as
widely utilised technology as we know it in today's time.

But the origin could be traced back into the 1950s with the introduction of mainframe
computing. During that time period, mainframe computing utilised large machines which
work significantly expensive towards mine as well as maintaining for each and every
employee. Therefore, the organisations would only move towards making a purchase of one
at most two machines along with utilising the aspect of time-sharing schedules. This enabled
various users within the organisation towards accessing the central mainframe computer from
the stations which have been connected to it. Hence, this kind of computational power which
can be shared could be regarded as the premise upon which the concepts of cloud computing
were built. (Azeem et al., 2021) During the 1960s, a major room was observed in the
technological aspect of cloud computing when the interconnection within the systems of
computers were indeed conceptualized. In the year of 1969, a scientist named J.C.R.
Licklider assisted was the development of a primitive model of internet, which came to be
known as ARPANET or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. This was the very
initial network which was capable towards allow in various digital sources to be shared
between computer systems, which were not present within the exact physical location. Over
the passing of years many various advancements were made within the cloud computing
technology. In the year of 1972, IBM introduced and operating system by the name of virtual
machine OS (Nieuwenhuis et al., 2018). The concept of visualisation introduces a virtual
computer within the entire network which is capable of acting like a real one, comprising of a
fully functioning operating system. This concept got further evolved with the utilisation of
internet, until the organisations started offering virtual private networks like that of a service
which can be rented by other companies and businesses. This eventually led towards the
development of modern technological concepts of cloud computing services. Also, within
this decade, various telecommunication organisations initiated the offering of virtual private
networks, comprising a of the same quality services along with offering dedicated data
connections which are capable of sharing or transferring data from point to point, at a much-
reduced cost. Then with the emergence of Amazon Web services, the company Amazon

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launched EC2 otherwise known as elastic compute cloud, which enable various organisations
as well as individual users towards renting the virtual computers which enabled them towards
utilising their own separate programs as well as applications.

2.2 Fundamentals of cloud computing

Business Value

Cloud computing is capable to provide flexibility as well as capability within matching the
cost expenditure regarding the service to the consumption as well as differentiate the aspect
of cloud computing from the various other services upon the internet. This feature develops a
significant new value with regards to the services provided by the business along with
enabling the development of various new business models. Cloud could not regard as the
kind of source expense, whose replacement can be done by the medium of various working
cost (Panduwinasari et al., 2021).

Development of service

The strengthening point or aspect within the technological implementation of cloud

computing is that of its capability towards providing instantaneous outputs. Due to this aspect
the customers on the users are capable towards obtain in the requested service within a matter
of few minutes. But the aspect of payment is not capable to words in carried out instantly, all
the way from the manual.

Scalability

The company on the organisation is capable towards killing the cloud infrastructure with
respect to the increment or decrement within the resources as well as the services and the
procedures according to the respective organisational needs. The resources in the cloud
computing are capable towards mean scaled both in the vertical and the horizontal way.
Vertical scaling could be understood as scaling up and is referred to the incorporation of
other resources towards increasing the efficiency of already existing server. Horizontal
scaling good be understood as scaling out and is referred to the add-in of various services
which are capable towards functioning like a single unit.

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3. Evaluations
3.1 Deployment models
There are 3 models to implement cloud computing services within an existing infrastructure,
namely the public cloud, the hybrid cloud and the private cloud which is also referred like on
premises cloud.

Public cloud

Public cloud can be referred to the cloud services which are implemented by the general
public or by any large organisation. The public cloud services are provisioned through
various organisations, in the business of providing cloud services to other companies. Public
cloud is capable towards presenting their users with various services like that of dynamic
provisioning of resources throughout the internet. Also, it makes the user table for the
utilisation of various applications which are internet based from the cloud provider with the
provision of leveraging shared resources and the bells generated based upon the utility
computing.

Private cloud

The environment private cloud computing is incorporated within the fibre of the respective
organisation and is responsible for getting managed by the management team assigned in the
respective organisation. The management team is also responsible towards assigning various
cloud services within the organisation so as to implement control about all the services as
well as the efficient monitoring of user activity of on the network of the organisation. The
implementation of private cloud computing provides similar benefits to that of an
environment of public cloud computing. The major distinction among them is that the
environment of private cloud computing makes the organisation able of being in charge
towards setting up the entire maintenance as well as administrative structure of the cloud.

Hybrid cloud

The concept of hybrid cloud computing comprises of utilising both the public cloud and
private cloud aspects as well as services. The responsibilities which fall under the category of
being managed by the management team of the administrative team in the respective
organisation are divided into the public cloud and the private cloud setup by the organisation.
The organisation is responsible to words choosing which of the services are to be handled by

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the public cloud provider along with which of the services are to be kept under the private
cloud infrastructure established. These decisions can indeed be made, based upon the
alternative, which seems to be the most suitable (Attaran et al., 2019).

3.2 Chosen model for deployment

With respect to the needs as well as the major services provided by the respective company, it
is suggested that the optimum approach is that of incorporating public cloud computing
environment within the existing infrastructure and network of the company. This particular
deployment model is being suggested due to the aspect that, the major necessities of the
respective company include the efficient storage as well as rapid accessibility of files as well
as the data stored, the sharing of files as well as documents along with the digital files must
be carried out with the utmost efficiency throughout the organisational network and all of
these aspects must be capable of being carried out by the authorised users remotely and by
mobile phones. (Azeem et al., 2021) Therefore, with respect to all these aspects and the
requirements of the company the best and the most cost-effective approach is that of using
the services of a public cloud provider.

As due to the aspect, when a public cloud environment is incorporated in an efficient way
within the network as well as the infrastructure of an organisation, it will serve the purpose of
being implemented with the utmost efficiency and effectiveness. It would provide its
assistance with the maintaining of offices along with establishing efficient communications
within each and every department established in the organisation (Attaran et al., 2017). Also,
it was a stupid the implementation of efficient management as well as administration clerk
versus making the administrative team capable towards monitoring the organisational
network along with establishing control procedures, making the company capable towards
stop in any unauthorised access of data.

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3.3 Service models
The initial layer is regarded as the infrastructure layer within the cloud computing
environment and comprises of several functionalities like establishing of servers and various
network devices as well as storage memory and such. Infrastructure as a service is also
known as IaaS, is made use for acquiring control within various operating systems along with
the storage units and the deployment regarding various applications and implementing a
limited control within various components of the network (Rashid et al., 2019).

The middle layer, also known as platform layer, is made use of regarding the implementation
of an infrastructure within various applications. Platform as a service is majorly implemented
for the implementation of fitness as well as efficiency within the accessibility e within the
operating systems and the multiple services which are associated with it. Furthermore, PaaS
also introduces various approaches with regards to the applications been deployed in an
effective way within the cloud computing environment, which is achieved by making use of
programming languages and the multiple tools supported by the cloud provider (Wang et al.,
2020). This particular interest structure is not required to be managed or even controlled, as
PaaS makes the user capable for processing control upon the applications to be deployed and
implementing control throughout hosting environment with respect to the application and the
various configurations.

The uppermost layer is the application layer, usually mis-conceptualised as being the whole
cloud system. Throughout the entire layer the applications running up on it are able to words
presenting various services to the respective users when demanded. Software as a service
makes the user table towards accessing various provisions with respect to the applications to
be deployed within the organisation, which could be regarded as been accessible by the
internet. Also, several tools such as calendars and the voice assistants and so on could indeed
be utilised upon the mobile devices.

3,4 Key Drivers

 High saving rate with regards to expending costs.
 Increment within scalability aspects and flexibility too.
 Sophistication within security measures.
 Efficiency in recovering from disasters.
 Improvements in collaborating aspect within several departments.

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Step 1:

Login to the Azure Portal.

Step 2: Select Virtual Machine to create the instance.

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Step 3:

Click on Create

Step 4:

Click on Review Create to create the instance.

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Step 5: Instance is created.

Step 6:

Now connect to the instance using putty.

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Step 7: Install the Simple database Server

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Step 8: Run the database server.

4. Problems arise on Cloud Computing Platform and its environment with

appropriate solution
Several problems arise while working on the cloud computing platform, some of them are
discussed below.

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Security in Password

As enormous quantities of individual’s operate cloud, it converts weak. Anyone might know
secret key else get in cloud platform, they want to get to your private data. Here the
association should utilize a different level confirmation and guarantee that the passwords stay
ensured. Additionally, the passwords ought to be altered routinely, particularly when a
specific representative leaves the association. Access freedoms to fields and keys ought to be
given wisely.

Management in Cost

Distributed computing empowers you to get to application programming over a quick web
association and allows you to save money on putting resources into exorbitant PC equipment,
programming, the board and support, which make it cost efficient. However, what is testing
and costly is tuning the association needs on the outsider stage. One more exorbitant issue is
the expense of moving information in a public local cloud, particularly for a private venture
or undertaking.

Safety Issues

The highest worry in putting resources into cloud administrations is security issues in
distributed computing. It is on the grounds that your information gets put away and handled
by an outsider seller and you can't see it. Consistently or the other, you get educated with
regards to broken verification, compromised accreditations, account hacking, information
breaks, and so forth in a specific association. It makes you somewhat more doubtful.

Luckily, the cloud suppliers, these days have begun to invest amounts of energy to further
develop security capacities. You can be wary also by confirming if the supplier carries out a
protected client character the board framework and access control methodology.
Additionally, guarantee it carries out data set security and protection conventions.

Internet connection

The cloud administrations are subject to a fast web association. So the organizations that are
moderately little and face availability issues ought to in a perfect world initially put resources

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into a decent web association so no vacation occurs. It is on the grounds that web vacation
may bring about huge business misfortunes.

Lack of Knowledge

With the expanding responsibility on cloud advancements and ceaselessly further developing
cloud apparatuses, the administration has become troublesome. It has a predictable interest
for a prepared trained force who can manage distributed computing devices and
administrations. Subsequently, firms need to prepare their technical department to limit this
test.

Compliance

One more significant danger of distributed computing is keeping up with consistence. By

consistence we mean, a bunch of rules regarding what information is permitted to be moved
and what ought to be kept in-house to keep up with consistence. The associations should
observe and regard the consistence guidelines set by different government bodies.

Governance or Control

Another moral issue in cloud computing is keeping up with genuine command over resource
the board and support. There ought to be a committed group to guarantee that the resources
used to carry out cloud administrations are utilized by concurred strategies and devoted
methods. There ought to be appropriate support and that the resources are utilized to meet
your association objectives effectively.

Various Management in Cloud

Organizations have begun to put resources into numerous public cloud, different private
clouds or a mix of both called the half and advanced cloud. This has filled quickly lately.
Now it is very critical to list difficulties looked by such associations and track down answers
for develop with the pattern.

Performance

At the point when your business applications move to a cloud or an outsider merchant, so
your business execution begins to rely upon your supplier also. One more serious issue in
distributed computing is putting resources into the right cloud specialist co-op. Prior to
speculation, you should search for suppliers with innovatory advances. The presentation of
the BIs and other cloud-based frameworks are connected to the suppliers frameworks also. Be

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mindful about picking the supplier and examine that they have conventions to moderate
issues that emerge continuously.

Designing a private cloud

Executing an interior cloud is profitable. This is on the grounds that every one of the
information stays safe. However, the test presented technical group needs to construct along
with all things without anyone else. Likewise, the group needs to guarantee smooth working
in cloud. They required to mechanize most extreme manual assignments. The implementation
of assignments ought to be all put together. So right now, it sounds very hard in setting a
private cloud without help from anyone else. In any case, numerous associations are wanting
to do as such in future.

Migration

Movement is only moving another application or a current to a cloud. On account of another

application, the interaction is really direct. Be that as it may, in case it is a deep rooted
organization software, it becomes drawn-out. Where 95% of associations are switching their
software application to cloud. The overview displays that the associations are thinking that it
is a bad dream. Some outstanding issues looked here are slow information relocations,
security challenges in distributed computing, broad investigating, application vacation,
movement specialists, and cutover intricacy.

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5. Conclusion
Cloud computing is a decent stage for organizations to develop and dominate. And yet, you
ought to stay watchful while taking on one. Cautiously pick your supplier, search for the
consistence strategies they follow and that they have a legitimate arrangement to moderate
dangers and weaknesses.

On the off chance that the difficulties referenced above are tended to and settled effectively,
distributed computing will turn into a broadly acknowledged innovation pattern. It is on the
grounds that business knowledge (BI) and the cloud are made for one another. BI disperses
right data to individuals while the cloud turns into a medium to get to BI applications. Its
benefits can't be put into words and disregarded. Distributed computing reception by
organizations of all sizes keeps on developing radically.

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6. References
Attaran, M. and Woods, J., 2019. Cloud computing technology: improving small business
performance using the Internet. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 31(6),
pp.495-519.

Wang, Z., Wang, N., Su, X. and Ge, S., 2020. An empirical study on business analytics
affordances enhancing the management of cloud computing data security. International
Journal of Information Management, 50, pp.387-394.

Attaran, M., 2017. Cloud computing technology: leveraging the power of the internet to
improve business performance. Journal of International Technology and Information
Management, 26(1), pp.112-137.

Rashid, A. and Chaturvedi, A., 2019. Cloud computing characteristics and services: a brief
review. International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, 7(2), pp.421-426.

Nieuwenhuis, L.J., Ehrenhard, M.L. and Prause, L., 2018. The shift to Cloud Computing: The
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Azeem, M., Sattar, A.R., Yasir, M. and Safdar, B., 2021. Increasing Role of Cloud
Computing In Business, Challenges and Decline In Challenges with Cloud Maturity.
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Panduwinasari, E., Eltivia, N. and Afandi, A., 2021. Business process modeling with cloud
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