Network Programmability Assessment 1: Report on Cloud Computing and Software Defined Networking

Programmability
Assessment 1: Report

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
How the shift towards cloud computing has impacted the industry?..............................................1
How the job role of network professionals has evolved to meet the technical challenges of the
cloud?...............................................................................................................................................3
How RESTful Web Services have been used to facilitate these changes?......................................4
Why software defined networking has become so heavily adapted by industry, despite meaning
an adaptation to the job role of network engineers?........................................................................6
Why standards, such as json and REST have been selected and utilised? Specifically consider
interoperability.................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Networking using the computer can be done with the help of the computing devices that
has the interconnection for exchanging and sharing of the data and information along with the
resources. There are several networked devices uses the communication protocols for
transmitting the data with the help of wireless and physical technologies. Taking about cloud
computing, then it refers to the availability of the several types of resources as per the demands
of the user. Such resources are related to the computer systems such as storage of the data and
also the computing power but there is no involvement of the direct active management of the
user. Clouds are large in number that contains the distributed functions through multiple
locations and each of the locations contains the data centre. Therefore, it is generally involved in
the delivery of the hosted services with the help of internet. Services which are provided by the
cloud has classification on the basis of infrastructure and platform along with the software as a
service. Networking using cloud is defined as the form of information technology infrastructure.
It provides the capabilities to the organizations in order to network the resources which are
hosted through various platforms either private or public cloud. It has usually the management of
service provider or in house on demand availability (Stergiou, Plageras, Psannis and Gupta,
2020). Therefore, the pursuing discussion is supported on the exploring of the domain of
computer networks which has shifted towards a greater accent on software while specifically
focusing on the cloud computing.
How the shift towards cloud computing has impacted the industry?
There are several organisations who has shifted their focus towards the services of cloud
computing technologies and they are benefited with this and also has gained the positive impact
on their performance.
 Organizations has saved their cost and extra expenses on the manual management which
also requires the large human resources. Cloud computing do not need extra cost and also
the human resources, they helps the companies in the cost efficient manner by simply
automating the tasks. It is also considered as the time efficient tool as well.
 Without using cloud computing, if companies saves their data the it can have the greater
chances to get hacked and also the losses of data without any back ups and recovery.
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