Cloud Computing: Proposed Architectures, Benefits, and Risks

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VideoDev ltd is a video production company. The organization works
for clients across New Zealand and Australia. Due to advancement in
technology, the organization is considering move its computer infrastructure
into the cloud to increase company responsiveness and flexibility. This paper
will give recommendations on best cloud architectures
Question one: Proposed Cloud architectures
VideoDev limited has about a hundred video production. Cloud
computing is required to meet the requirement of scalability and cost
efficiency. In addition, cloud computing changes an organization work-flow.
Figure one below illustrates an overview of NIST cloud reference
architecture. As shown by the figure, it identifies the major actors their
functions and activities in cloud computing Since VideoDev is a video
production company, it is bests suited by web 2.0, and Mashup architectures.
Figure 1: NIST cloud reference architecture
Figure 2 shows web 2.0 cloud architecture. Some of the major features
of web 2.0 is that it allows users to collectively find and classify dynamic
information which flows tow ways between site user and site owner by

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means of reviews, evaluation, and comments. With mashp-up archicture it
will enable VideoDiv to use Youtube which could be used to serve vidoes and
last.fm which can be used to include music recommendation
Figure 2: Web 2.0 cloud architecture
In addition, VideoDev needs to implement Google content
management, as it supports Google Load Balancer. Also the VideoDev
Company needs to implement Eucalyptus cloud architecture, nimbus, and
RESTful architecture to provide a robust DNS manages. With RESTful one is
able to allow communication between two or more software programs. It is
also well suited for video based applications. Some of the features of web 2.0
are search, chats, and sharing, mash-up, POD casting, you tube, and RSS
and web 2 based homepage (Bhowmik, 2017).

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Question two: Description of the architectures
Web 2.0 architecture
Web 2.0 cloud architecture is a business revolution in computing
industry which is caused by the move to the internet platform. The major
reason as to why VideoDev needs to implement Web 2.0 cloud architecture
is because in includes hosted services like Google maps, Video sharing sites
such as You tube, and social networking sites such as Facebook
Mashup architecture
Mash-up cloud architecture will provide a means of combining multiple
external sources into one application. It also provides a means of
consolidating information with an easy-to-use interface.
Google content management architecture
The major reason as to why VideoDev Company needs to have Google
content management is its ability to organize, classify, and extra the
important pairs from unstructured content
Eucalyptus cloud architecture
One of the major reasons as to why VideoDev needs to utilize
Eucalyptus architecture is its ability to support high performance computing.
It can also be deployed without modification on all Linux OS distributions. In