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Faculty of Engineering and Computing

Post grad MBA/ MSc Detail project proposal document

Explanatory Notes – You should read these before filling in your proposal
(Please do not hand these notes in with your form )

FEC MBA/ MSc Detail Project Proposal Form

Please type and fill in the following form and all fields. Once completed and
reviewed by supervisors then submit an electronic copy to Coventry University (see
details at the end of this form). Thank you.

Details

Uni Start Date

Surname (Family Forename(s)

Name ) (Given Name)

Student ID no. Course

Contact E-Mail Mobile/Contact

No.

First Supervisor

2nd Assessor

Project Details

General Subject Area

Keywords /Topic areas listed
(A broad topic area that defines the area of project and keywords that could be used in
a search facility)
IT systems, Management

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Project Title:
A proposed title of the project, succinct and clear as to the project undertaken.
Virtualization and its effect on corporate strategies and performance objectives of the
organizations. A case study of the general people’s committee for public security
libya.

Abstract/ Summary:
Please provide some background about the project, topic, company, situation and
overall summary as to the nature of problem and what is required (approx 500
words)
Virtualization means allowing multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a
single computer. It separates hardware from a single operating system. It is a modified
solution between centralized and decentralized deployment. Centralized serves are
expensive to purchase and to maintain. Decentralized applications are expensive and
it lowers the performance of machine leaving server idle 85% of the time.

Virtualization allows an operator to control a guest operating system’s use of CPU,

memory, storage, and other resources, so each guest receives only the resources that it
needs. This distribution eliminates the danger of a single runaway process consuming
all available memory or CPU. It also helps the IT staff to satisfy service level
requirements for specific applications.

Virtualization can be hardware and software. Computer hardware virtualization is

the virtualization of computers or operating systems. It hides the physical
characteristics of a computing platform from users. The software that controls the
virtualization used to be called a control program. Nowadays the terms "hypervisor"
or "virtual machine monitor" are preferred over control program. Example of
hardware virtualization is IBM pSeries Servers.

Software virtualization includes: run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a

single operating system OS such as Windows or Linux. Application virtualization,

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workspace virtualization and the hosting of individual applications in an environment

separated from the underlying OS. Example of software virtualization is VMware
Server (GSX) and OpenVZ. There are several offers from market in the field of
virtualization. Freely available virtualizations are OpenVZ (Open Source), VMware
Server (GSX), and Xen 3.0 (Open Source). Commercial virtualization available is
Virtuozzo, VMware ESX, Xen Enterprise, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Virtual Iron.

Virtualization is a very vast area for academic research. This project will be an
attempt in order to investigate the actual business benefits achieved by corporations
through implementing in-house virtualization. The focus will be on how virtualization
can achieve the cost reduction as well as improvement in productivity and
performance of the business. There are many negative effects of virtualization if the
corporate strategies, performance objectives and corporate governance/information
security objectives are not comprised in the architectures designed by the solution
providers.

It has been observed that stake holders of the organization are very reluctant to accept
virtualization to host their business critical solutions due to absence of proven track
records and absence of empirical generalizations in the academic world.

General people’s committee for public security in Libya

The Libyan general people’s committee for public security system consist of different
department carrying out various functions and are also responsible for security in
Libya.
Such functions include vehicle registration system, driving Licenses system, fight
against drug trafficking, illegal immigration, robbery, car theft, burglary and fraud.
They are also responsible for the civil defence and police welfare. According to the
responsibility of the organization, they use various techniques in order to services the
citizens.

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Objectives
List overall objectives of the project. These should be measurable and will be used in
part assessment in determining the level of achievement of the project. These should
reflect the Learning outcomes of the Module.
(Can be a breakdown of what you are trying to achieve and can be representative of
activities/ phases that are to be conducted in arriving at the project deliverables)
1. To investigate the performance of servers after hosting multiple operating
systems and applications and how they contributed towards the overall
performance of an organisation.
2. To investigate the possibility of Virtualizing IP multimedia solutions, fail
over, data organization, management and their effect on the performance of an
organisation.
3. To investigate the other attributes of virtualization like information security,
software delivery licensing, auditing and gained by businesses to increase their
performance.
4. To investigate the negative effects of virtualization if the corporate strategies,
performance objectives and corporate governance/information security
objectives are not included in the architectures designed by the solution
providers.
5. To investigate why the organisations are very reluctant to accept virtualization
to host their business critical solutions.
6. To analyse how Virtualization can be implemented in the organisations.
7. To analyse how the process of implementation of virtualization can be
improved

Project Outcomes:
Provide a list of key outcomes of the conducted project (can be deliverables/outputs
for each of the above objectives/ stages and these can be studies, reports,
requirements, plans, recommendations etc)
The expected outcomes of this project are:
1. Understanding of virtualisation concept.

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2. Advantages of Virtualization.
3. Effect of virtualization in an organisation performance.
4. What market offering in Virtualization.
5. Implementation of Virtualization.
6. Improvement of Virtualization.

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Why are you interested in the project?

Provide a reason for your interest, what greater general interest it serves (In Industry
or as part of Research) and who it could benefit (the target audience(s) that this
project would be beneficial to)
The reasons behind chose this topic of virtualization because it has become the buzz
word when future solutions for IT enabling of businesses are discussed. It is the
important concept for an organisation because virtualization is one of the most
effective methods to save costs through saves on maintenance and leases, improve an
organization’s infrastructure. It reduces the number of physical machines and on the
other hand makes better use of capacity.

What are the key questions the project attempts to answer?

These should be testable in some way. These should be the key focal points that the
project is trying to determine. (Challenging views, practises, models, behaviour,
adoption etc on areas such as : the nature of .., impact of …, the practicality of.., a
hypothesis of …, inferences questioned, assumptions deliberated and tested, questions
of comparisons and contrasts .,etc-)
This project answers the following questions:
 Meaning of Virtualization.
 Types of Virtualization.
 Virtualization Architecture.
 Implementation of virtualization in an organisation.
 Need of Virtualization.

What research methods do you intend to use?

(Discuss the nature of investigation considering the multitude of academic and
Industry methods, with thoughts on qualitative and quantitative methods, and primary
and secondary methods)
The aim of this project is to understand the virtualization concept therefore will be
used qualitative methods which will generate more useful information than
quantitative methods that are more likely easy to understand, explain, and analyse.
Also will use the method of questionnaire to know the reaction of companies that are

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using virtualization and making software and hardware for virtualization. In addition
will take the help from the internet, books, journals etc to collect credible information
regarding the virtualization concept.

What primary and/or secondary data sources do you intend to use?

(for each of the above identified methods discuss the pool of sources of authentic and
credible information giving examples, e.g. consider target audiences such as profiles
of general public, company representatives, people with specialist knowledge and in
specific positions, type and title of books, journals etc)
In this project both the primary and secondary data methods will be used.
Primary method to conduct questionnaire in an organisation that was using
virtualization concept. Secondary method i.e. books, journals, and the Internet to
collect information about the virtualization.

Please provide draft chapter headings for your report

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Literature Review
Chapter Three: Research Methodology
Chapter Four: Case Study Analysis
Chapter Five: Conclusion and Recommendations
Chapter Six: References

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Gantt chart

Attach or outline a project schedule (Gantt chart) which incorporates the phases of
your project and activities to undertake, duration, start and end dates, any milestones/
deliverables and major dependencies. This should preferably be in MS project (by
exception: .xls, .doc, PowerPoint etc)

Date:

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