ICT Cloud: Reducing Risks, Improving Agility, and Security in Cloud Computing

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Table of Contents
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................2
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................3
Task 4.........................................................................................................................................6
Task 8.........................................................................................................................................9
Task 9.......................................................................................................................................11
Task 10.....................................................................................................................................14
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Task 1
a. Reducing the risks of IT usage: banks had been under influences of the service
providers of information technology from a certain technical direction, system
architecture up to the application software that results to high amount of expenditures
along with the lock-in of the IT systems up to a certain proprietary technology of a
vendor (Radu, 2016). with eth usage of cloud computing the bank would be allowed
to obtain a certain infrastructure, platform of development as well as application
software with the help of procurement of numerous service area, besides this, the
bank would not need to make a huge investment, and do not have to undergo a certain
long as well as risky process (Andriyanto, Doss & Pan, 2018). The bank would not
have to be limited to some manufacturers of hardware products as well as solution,
this s due to the compatibility necessities.
Improving the agility of IT: according to the traditional mode, the bank would have to
deploy a certain new application, they would have to carry out a certain series of
processes that include selection of equipment’s, purchasing as well as installation along
with configuration that might take few weeks or months (Lytvynova & Melnyk, 2018).
Cloud computing has certain features that makes it easy for banks to use, rapid
development along with manageability, they can hugely accelerate the arrangement as
well as expansion management of various applications within the field of banking. If the
bank needs surplus computing power for meeting temporary spikes, they would be able to
get them with the use of cloud (Shyshkina, 2018). The cloud computing solution would
make the infrastructure maintenance along with the usage of information systems to the
highest level of explanation.

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b. Difference between the public and private cloud services: according to various
researchers, the public cloud can be defined as one that a certain service provider
provides various resources for computing to people (Radu, 2017). The public cloud
services could be provided in return of zero charge or with the help of pricing model
like pay-as-you-go. The supplier usually owns as well as runs infrastructure and lets
the access to cloud with the help of internet (Bhatiasevi & Naglis, 2016). Public cloud
is offered with the help of providers who are famous or well-known like Amazon
AWS, Microsoft and Google.
The private cloud is one which can be accessed by a certain enterprise that is also called
as client. This sort of cloud might be presented by the provider of the service or by the
consumer itself. It could also be achieved by customer or a certain third party provider
(Adamczewski, 2016). Consumer of a particular private cloud usually is a huge institute
because it requires to build as well as be able to manage the cloud. A certain cloud also needs
the customer to mention the security threats for ensuring that it cannot be accessed by any
unauthorized user who does not belong to the client organization.
Task 2
a. Few organizations have provided a private cloud architecture that is full-fledged. one
of the commercial offering include Enomaly, besides this Eucalyptus is considered as
a source variant that is open and had received much popularity (Kasemsap, 2015).
Few things are to be kept in mind at the time of developing a certain private cloud
architecture. The aspects that are required for implementing private cloud as a
solution architect to a probable consumer are as follows
Server architecture: this particular technology would run on virtualization that is based on
Hypervisor. The servers would require Intel VT or features of AMP Pacifica for running as a

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section of private cloud architecture (Sabi, Uzoka & Langmia, 2016). Hence it is necessary
that the organization rules out the servers that are old and had been used since a long time.
Selecting cloud middleware: this is one of the best options for private cloud architecture
which is supported by the virtualization platform that is present in the current server. The
XEN user would have the options to select between the Enomaly and the Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud. If the organization has been accustomed to VMware, then they must choose VMware
based private cloud architecture because it would be a better option for the organization (Al-
Ruithe, Benkhelifa & Hameed, 2017). At this time, the Microsoft Hyper-V users might have
to pause. This is because Microsoft had announced the launch of Dynamic Datacentre Toolkit
which would allow the users to build private cloud architectures on the basis of Hyper- V
(Iannone, Bellagamba & Bracco, 2016). It is very important for the organization to assess if
they need a hybrid cloud and if their cloud platform would support the architecture of public
cloud. Eucalyptus that usually operates within the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud includes Amazon
EC2 compliant, it also has the ability to connect with EC2 for forming a hybrid cloud (Al-
Sharafi, Arshah & Abu-Shanab, 2017). It could be speculated that Dynamic Datacentre
Toolkit of Microsoft would be able to integrate properly along with the Microsoft Azure.
b. Microsoft System Centre can be considered as a particular set of products that aim in
server management, these products also aim in helping the enterprise IT
administrators for managing the systems. Microsoft System Centre can be used for
monitoring as well as operating cloud, it helps organizations to realize regarding the
advantages which would be available with the Microsoft Cloud Platform with the help
of fast as well as unified management (Loukis, Kyriakou & Pazalos, 2017). This
features monitoring that is out of the box as well as uncommon monitoring,
provisioning, configuration, protection, self-service and automation, these factor

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would reduce the time to value the service area as well as applications that are served
with the help of cloud.
The basic elements of Systems Centre Management Platform would help in capturing as
well as gathering information about the structure, strategies, and procedures as well as best
practices for helping IT to build reliable as well as manageable systems and properly
automate numerous processes (Wamuyu, 2017). The core products in this particular group
include Systems Centre Configuration Manager which was formerly called Systems
Management Server, Systems Centre Operations Manager which was formerly known as
Microsoft Operations Manager (Peiris, Balachandran & Sharma, 2018). As per Microsoft
SCCM is responsible for assessing, deploying along with updating the servers, clients,
devices and computers across the physical, distributes, virtual as well as mobile
environments. SCOM can be stated as a particular end to end service management product
(Adelmeyer, Walterbusch & Biermanski, 2017). Some more products within this particular
group includes Systems Centre Data Protection Manager, Systems Centre Essentials, Systems
Centre Virtual Machines Manager and Systems Centre Capacity Planner.
The capabilities of Microsoft System Centre are as follows
1. This provides Windows Server as well as monitoring the workload: Assures health of
virtual, physical as well as cloud infrastructure with the help of console of operations
manager (Tsaih, Yen & Chang, 2015).
2. Built in topology as well as discovery of network: enables monitoring the health
regarding network devices as well as virtual networks.
3. Integration that is seamless in nature: this allows granular monitoring of the private
cloud infrastructure as well as resources (Shyshkina, 2018).