Hybrid Cloud Architecture for Metasoft Limited

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HYBRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE FOR METASOFT LIMITED
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HYBRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE FOR METASOFT LIMITED
Executive Summary:
Cloud computing is one of the most important techniques used in the modern world today in
most of the organizations. It makes use of the technique of virtualization in the workspace and all the
operational tasks can be managed and carried out remotely. Different networking concepts are used
and servers and hosts are used in the cloud network architecture.
This report will highlight the aspects of a cloud infrastructure implementation within a so ftware
company called Metasoft limited. The different aspects such as the cost factors, risks, advantages as well
as the disadvantages will be studied in the following paragraphs. By the end of the report, the reader
will have a clear idea on the working of cloud architectures within an organization.
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................3
Proposed architecture for a hybrid cloud:...................................................................................................4
Architectures to be incorporated:...........................................................................................................5
Risks report of hybrid cloud architecture and the micro services:..............................................................8
Proposed precautions for information security:........................................................................................11
Changes to Business Continuity Plan.........................................................................................................12
Issues in Resilience................................................................................................................................12
Disaster Recovery System......................................................................................................................13
Backup...................................................................................................................................................13
Hybrid cloud administration and service level agreement:.......................................................................14
Checklist to be performed.....................................................................................................................16
SharePoint migration to cloud architecture..............................................................................................17
Migration Plan.......................................................................................................................................17
Issues in Migration Plan.........................................................................................................................18
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................................19
References:................................................................................................................................................20
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Introduction:
Cloud computing is one of the most important and widely used computing techniques used in
the world toddy in different organizations. It is also known as hybrid cloud computing because it is a
hybridization technique that is used to integrate public as well as private cloud architectures to give a
common solution to all the data storage related as well as other concerns within an organization. When
or more public cloud architectural networks are merged with the traditional in house server and storage
systems, it results in the formation of a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Hybridization in cloud computing is
extremely important in today’s world due to the different risk factors associated with the traditional
computing and data storage techniques. It eliminates different risks associated to data storage and
other risks. IN other words, cloud computing is the future of organizations when every business related
tasks can be remotely and will ease the working operations of all organizations.
This report will study the case of a company called MetaSoft Ltd, which is a software company
headquartered in Australia and operates in New Zealand as well. The company is looking forward to
incorporate a cloud architecture within the organization. The company is planning to close rather
update the traditional working techniques and infrastructure in the Melbourne site. They are planning
to replace the old infrastructure in Melbourne with a hybrid cloud infrastructure and most updated
technologies like they presently have in their Sydney site. Through this, they are planning to increase
flexibility within their working business operational tasks as well as effectively make it beneficial for the
customers as well. The following report will highlight the different cloud infrastructures that can be
implemented within the company and the different aspects such as its risk factors, advantage and
disadvantages.
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Proposed architecture for a hybrid cloud:
Firstly, the reader must be aware of what a hybrid cloud infrastructure means. A cloud
computing architecture is nothing but the different network components and their sub components,
which are essential for carrying out the computing tasks within an organization. These different
components consists of working platforms, which are front end, example fat clients Fernando, (Loke &
Rahayu, 2013). It also consist of mobile and portable devices as well as thin clients and back end-
working platforms, for example servers and hard disk drives. The architecture of a cloud network also
consists of the internet, over which data can be transmitted across different devices even across
different geographical locations (Arora, Parashar & Transforming, 2013).
Fig 1: Working of a hybrid cloud network (Source: As used by author).
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