PUNTILAND STATE UNIVERCITY

Fuculty of computer science and information technology

Department of information technology

Course name: IT infrastucture

Group project: group 6

Project: traditional computing and cloud computing

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What is a computing:

Computing is any goal-oriented activity required, benefiting, form, or creating algorithmic process.

Computing incudes: developing and building hardware and software systems, processing, structuring, and managing
various kind of information

What is Traditional IT Infrastructure?

Traditional computing: are implemented within organiztion, provide mature sytem functionality, and abilities of
greter customizion and integration.

Traditional computing has a database that resides on site server and hardwere.

Generaly housed on a company’s own servers and maintained by their IT staff, or an outside consultant. And it
needs reqular softwere updates and huge hardwere investments to run them. Traditional system provides less cost
saving, but also have few operational benefits, such as

➢ having the data and computing of applications on premises

➢ ability to monitor system performance or uptime with the same tools
➢ better costomized applications in house with no funtionality change
➢ no blind trust on vander for backup and recovery.

Traditional computing:
Traditional data centres consist of various pieces of hardware, such as a desktop computer, which are connected to
a network via a remote server. This server is typically installed on the premises, and provides all employees using the
hardware, access to the business’s stored data and applications.

Businesses with this IT model must purchase additional hardware and upgrades in order to scale up their data
storage and services to support more users. Mandatory software upgrades are also required with traditional IT
infrastructure to ensure fail safe systems are in place to in case a hardware failure occurs. For many businesses with
IT data centres, an in-house IT department is needed to install and maintain the hardware.

On the other hand, traditional IT infrastructures are considered to be one of the most secure data hosting solutions
and allows you to maintain full control of your company’s applications and data on the local server. They are a
customised, dedicated system ideal for organisations that need to run many different types of applications.

Generally housed on company’s own serves and maintained by the IT staff, or an outside consultant. Is requires
regular software updates and huge hardware investments to run then. Its one time payment fixed for a specific
period of time to avail the facility.

Traditional Computing Benefits:

• Save on on-going cost

• No third party access to your information

• Physical control over backup

• Ability to monitor system performance or uptime with the same tools

• Organization themselves takes the responsibility of the security.

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What is cloud computing?

In cloud computing, the word cloud is used as a metaphor for

"the Internet," so the phrase cloud computing means "a type of
Internet-based computing," where different services — such as
servers, storage, and applications — are delivered to the
computers and devices through the Internet.

Cloud Computing refers to manipulating, configuring, and

accessing the applications online. It offers online data storage,
infrastructure, and application.

Distributed computing on internet or delivery of computing service over the internet. E.g: Yahoo!, Gmail,
Hotmail

Instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The
software and storage for your account does not exist on your computer -- it's on the service's computer cloud.

History of cloud computing:

Concept evolved in 1950(IBM) called RJE (Remote Job Entry Process). In 2006 Amazon provided First public
cloud AWS (Amazon Web Service).

Cloud computing Components:

1. Client computers

Clients are the device that the end user interact with
cloud. And there are Three types of clients: Mobile,
Thick and Thin (Most Popular)

2. Distributed Servers

Often servers are in geographically different places, but server acts as if they are working next to each other.

3. Datacenters

It is collection of servers where application is placed and is accessed via internet. And server controled by the
It Administers the system such as monitoring traffic, client demands to ensure everything runs smoothly. It uses
a special type of software called Middleware. Middleware allow computer to communicate each other.

Essential Characteristics of cloud computing:

 On-demand self-service: a consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time
and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service
provider.

 Broad network access: Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard
mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones,
tablets, laptops, and workstations).

 Rapid elasticity: Capabilities can be expanded or released automatically (i.e., more cpu power, or ability to
handle additional users) To the customer this appears seamless, limitless, and responsive to their
changing requirements

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  Measured service: Customers are charged for the services they use and the amounts. There is a metering
concept where customer resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing
transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service

Cloud Computing Benefits:

 Reduced Cost
 Decrease maintenance/upgrades cost and schedules
 Improved resource utilization—elasticity, flexibility, efficiencies
 customization not on team
 cost saving upfront
 access any where and time
 better security measures
 adepts to growth easily

Types of cloud computing Service Models:

Service Models are the reference models on which the Cloud Computing is based. These can be categorized
into three basic service models as listed below:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): IaaS is the delivery of technology infrastructure as an on demand

scalable service.IaaS provides access to fundamental resources such as physical machines, virtual
machines, virtual storage, etc.

➢ Usually billed based on usage

➢ Usually multi tenant virtualized environment
➢ Can be coupled with Managed Services for OS and application support

• Platform as a Service (PaaS): PaaS provides the

runtime environment for applications, development &
deployment tools, etc. PaaS provides all of the facilities
required to support the complete life cycle of building
and delivering web applications and services entirely
from the Internet.

Typically, applications must be developed with a platform in mind

➢ Multi tenant environments

➢ Highly scalable multi tier architecture

• Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS model allows to use software applications as a service to end users.
SaaS is a software delivery methodology that provides licensed multi-tenant access to software and its
functions remotely as a Web-based service.
➢ Usually billed based on usage
➢ Usually multi tenant environment
➢ Highly scalable architecture

Types of cloud computing:

➢ PUBLIC CLOUD: The Public Cloud allows systems and services to be easily accessible to the
public. Public cloud may be less secure because of its openness, e.g., e-mail.
➢ PRIVATE CLOUD: The Private Cloud allows systems and services to be accessible within a n
organization. It offers increased security because of its private nature.

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 ➢ COMMUNITY CLOUD: The Community Cloud allows systems and services to be accessible by
group of organizations.
➢ HYBRID CLOUD: The Hybrid Cloud is mixture of public and private cloud. However, the critical
activities are performed using private cloud while the non-critical activities are performed using public
cloud.

Advantages of cloud computing: • Features might be limited

• Can be slow
• Lower computer costs • Stored data can be lost
• Improved performance • Stored data might not be secure
• Reduced software costs
• Instant software updates Applications of cloud computing:
• Improved document format compatibility
• Social Networking sites.
Disadvantages of cloud computing: • E-mail sites.
• Search Engines.
• Requires a constant Internet connection • Many more services OVER THE
• Does not work well with low-speed INTERNET.
connections

the main differences between cloud computing and traditional computing:

1. Security

➢ Cloud computing is an external form of data storage and software delivery, which can make it seem less secure
than local data hosting. Anyone with access to the server can view and use the stored data and applications in
the cloud, wherever internet connection is available. Choosing a cloud service provider that is completely
transparent in its hosting of cloud platforms and ensures optimum security measures are in place is crucial
when transitioning to the cloud.

➢ With traditional IT infrastructure, you are responsible for the protection of your data, and it is easier to ensure
that only approved personnel can access stored applications and data. Physically connected to your local
network, data centers can be managed by in-house IT departments on a round-the-clock basis, but a significant
amount of time and money is needed to ensure the right security strategies are implemented and data recovery
systems are in place.

2. Running Costs
➢ Cloud computing is more cost effective than traditional computing due to methods of payment for the data
storage services. With cloud-based services, you only pay for what is used – similarly to how you pay for
utilities such as electricity. Furthermore, the decreased likelihood of downtime means improved workplace
performance and increased profits in the long run.
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➢ With traditional IT infrastructure, you will need to purchase equipment and additional server space upfront
to adapt to business growth. If this slows, you will end up paying for resources you do not use.
Furthermore, the value of physical servers decreases year on year, so the return on investment of investing
money in traditional IT infrastructure is quite low.

References:

1. Amazon web services YouTube page: https://youtu.be/dH0yz-Osy54

2. https://aws.amazon. com/what-is-cloud-computing/
3. Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing
4. Slide share documents and power-points such as:
➢ Cloud computing by Adam Balla & Wachiu Siu
➢ Introduction to Cloud Computing by Prof. Dr.S.Sujatha, MCA Dept, Anna Univ, Trichy

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