ITEC 625 - Concept of Virtualization and Cloud Computing - Report

Running head: VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Migration of database.................................................................................................................3
Security to protect critical database on moving to IaaS instance...........................................3
Benefits and Issues result in deployment of security measure...............................................4
Risk associated...........................................................................................................................4
The Database..........................................................................................................................4
The IaaS infrastructure...........................................................................................................5
Communication between the Webb’s and their IaaS Database in cloud...................................5
Webb’s consideration for the use of Cloud backup...............................................................5
Risks and Issues associated with backing up data to the cloud..................................................6
Backing up data to the cloud..................................................................................................6
storage of the data in the cloud..............................................................................................6
Recommend to Webb’s Board to protect access to:...................................................................6
Clear backup and restore infrastructure.....................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The Webb store is situated in the state of Australia and in New Zeeland which mainly
consist of selling of a wide range of stuff which is related to food including some speciality
items. The store is trying to implement a new technology which is related to the cloud
computing along with their daily operation of retailing. The store is facing some issue which
is a continuous issue along the complexity of the operation and management of the
application which is related to information. The concept which was furnished by them was
that that technological innovation towards the process of cloud could be directly beneficial
from the point of the organisation as well as from the point of the customers the store retailer
was mainly advised to moving to the cloud computing environment from their traditional
cloud computing infrastructure. The store is planning to close the data centre which is
situated at Auckland and as a result of which moving from the old infrastructure to the new
infrastructure. The main concern of the store is the cost related to the LTO 6 tapes which are
increasing, this is mainly used to provide back up of critical mission data, on the other hand
there is also a concern on the concept of time framework which is needed to complete a full
back up with regards to the database and the data which is termed as critical. The main aim
the report is to provide an increase in the prospective of organisations flexibility and
responsiveness. The store also has a plan of starting a risk and security workshop for the
assessment of the issue which are related to security and the method that can be used in order
to attain the above prospective is the “hybrid cloud”
Migration of database
Taking into consideration the movement of the MS SQL Server 2012 database to an
infrastructure as a service in stance of the cloud computing there can be many consequences

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regarding the privacy and the security aspect related to the organisation. Hence the section
mainly puts limelight on the impact which is related to the strategy.
Security to protect critical database on moving to IaaS instance
As the concept of the choosing of the cloud for the SQL server, the selection would be
SQL server on the Azure VMs (IaaS) over the MS SQL server 2012 R2 database. The SQL
which is installed are mainly hosted on the cloud which are on the window server 2012 R2
Database that would be running on the Azure which is also called the IaaS (Infrastructure as a
cloud). The SQL servers on the azure virtual machine are mainly optimized in order to
migrate the existing application of the SQL servers where every other SQL server application
versions and editions are very much present. This cloud service mainly allows the hosting of
the multiple database as per the need and is very much compatible with the server of the
SQL. The SQL server or the azure virtual machines (VMs) mainly comes within the category
of the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that mainly comprise of the facility to run on the SQL
Server inside the peripheral of the virtual machine relating to the cloud. This is mainly based
within the concept of the standardized hardware as similar to the SQL Database which is
owned, maintained and hosted by the Microsoft. Using a SQL server on a virtual machine a
user can either use an existing license or a maintain pay-as-you-go for the SQL Server which
is licensed and already exiting in the framework of the SQL server image. It can be
considered to very much flexible to use in every aspect possible.
The infrastructure as a service mainly comprise of policy which is service oriented.
The concept of the hybrid cloud mainly utilizes both the public cloud as well as the private
that perform very much distinct functions. The implementation of the hybrid cloud is mainly
for the sector which is related to e- commerce websites in the retail store within the
infrastructure of the private cloud. This concept is very much scalable and secure and the