Cloud Computing

Running head: CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud Computing
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................2
2.1 Brief Idea of the Case Study............................................................................................2
2.2 Description of the Cloud Architectures that can be employed for assisting VideoDev
for meeting the strategy of the Board to move their web services to a Micro Service
Approach................................................................................................................................3
2.3 Description of the Risks that are associated with the New Micro Services Strategy in a
Tabular form...........................................................................................................................6
2.4 Description of the general steps and controls for Information Security, recommended to
the Board for securing the Micro Services with Relevant Reasons.......................................9
2.5 Discussion of recommendation for the BCP of VideoDev as a result of their adoption
of a Micro Services approach after considering issues of Application Resilience, Disaster
Recovery and Backup..........................................................................................................10
2.6 Discussion of the Requirements that VideoDev require to consider for conducting
Remote Administration, Resource Management and SLA Management for the Micro
Services Approach...............................................................................................................11
2.7 Recommendation of the best Migration Strategy and Process for Migration of the Web
Services to a Micro Services Approach with steps for migration and Identification of
Critical Points and Issues occurred at each of these Steps...................................................12
3. Conclusion............................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14

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1. Introduction
Cloud computing can be referred to as the generalized term for anything, which
majorly includes the delivering of different hosted services on the Internet connection. Such
distinctive services are being broadly sub divided into three sections, which are IaaS or
infrastructure as a service, PaaS or platform as a service and SaaS or software as a service
(Rittinghouse & Ransome, 2017). This cloud computing is extremely important for sharing of
data and information in the most safe and secured manner. This report provides a detailed
outlining of the case study of the organization of VideoDev and their movement to cloud
approach. Various risks will be identified with the MicroServices approach with suitable
recommendations for BCP, resource management and SLA management.
2. Discussion
2.1 Brief Idea of the Case Study
Video Dev Limited is a popular organization that is responsible for video as well as
production development and it works for their customers in both New Zealand and Australia.
They are considering to move few of their computerized infrastructure to the cloud, so that
better responsiveness and flexibility is being obtained. It would even be required for save the
cost of maintenance of the ICT infrastructure. They are having around 100 staff for video
production, supporting and engineering, who are serving different clients in the various parts
of New Zealand and Australia. Video Dev needs advise on the re factoring of the respective
application of video processing for utilizing a micro services approach. The entire board of
the organization wants to start their move to the direction for checking if there are any type of
possibility in the future.
Moreover, they have even decided to start their planning for migrating the existing
web based services from the 2 on premise data centres to the public cloud. They want to

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retain the data centre of Sydney for better storage of data and it would entail up gradation of
the Active Directory and infrastructure of data storage for moving the other infrastructure to
cloud. Moreover, the web services are also needed to be moved to cloud for providing an
increased responsiveness to customer demands and enhanced HA level for data supply. The
existing architecture of web software is also required to be change for better flexibility or
scalability after moving to micro services model. The business continuity planning and threat
and risk assessment is needed to be updated with these new changes in the architecture.
2.2 Description of the Cloud Architectures that can be employed for assisting VideoDev
for meeting the strategy of the Board to move their web services to a Micro Service
Approach
Cloud computing architecture eventually refers to the several significant elements like
databases, applications and software capabilities, present in the organization for leveraging
the subsequent power of various cloud resources for solving business problems
(Whaiduzzaman et al., 2014). This type of cloud architecture provides the relationships and
components effectively. The main components of cloud are on premise resources, cloud
resources, middleware and software services and other components. It has the aim of
providing the users with higher bandwidth and allowing the users in having any type of
uninterrupted accessibility to the applications and data and on demand agile networks with
the core probability of moving quickly within servers and even between clouds or network
security. The three types of popular architectures of cloud computing are software as a
service or SaaS, platform as a service or PaaS and infrastructure as a service or IaaS.
VideoDev, being a video production company, would be highly benefitted if they would
involve IaaS and PaaS (Chen et al., 2015).
a) The description of these two cloud architectures with relevant reason is provided
below: