Recommendations for MetaSoft's Migration to Cloud Computing

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Task 1.............................................................................................................................2
Recommends that should be included........................................................................2
Task 2.............................................................................................................................5
Requirements of remote server administration..........................................................5
Operational checklist of Morad and Dalbhanjan.......................................................8
Conclusion......................................................................................................................9
References....................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
This report aims to provide recommendations to the company, MetaSoft, for their
migration to cloud computing. A brief discussion of the recommends that should be included
in the BCP of the company for the adoption of an approach of Hybrid cloud and
Microservices. The issues of recovery, application resilience, and backup, and from disaster
in the environment of cloud is discussed in this report. The requirements that should be
considered by MetaSoft for conducting resource management, SLA management, and remote
server administration for the proposed instances of PaaS and IaaS are stated in this report.
The company MetaSoft Ltd. Is a company of software development that works across
New Zealand and Australia. The company is planning on shifting the data centres on the
environment of cloud to manage the data more securely. The idea is to exercise the benefits
of cloud infrastructure for increasing the flexibility and the availability for the applications of
LOB that will carry on executing on the infrastructure of its own. The company is forced to
implement the cloud services due to the rise in the demand of the utilisation of the internal
resources.
Task 1
Recommends that should be included
The condition of hybrid cloud has always been beneficial for the companies for
several reasons. Some of them are business resilience, reinforcement, and disaster
recuperation. The common reason for these advantages is to provide the compliance of
spanning locally and isolated storages. The storage of hybrid cloud assists in permitting the
alternatives. This happens specifically on the chance that an exposed cloud is used
excessively for backup. The cloud has a unique ability of providing resiliency and meaning
so that the situation when there is a requirement of restoring dependent on the events, which

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have affected the situation. The resiliency of cloud is understood as the method of readapting
to any kind of situation of crisis. This is applicable to the data and the infrastructure
(Dasgupta et al., 2013). The infrastructure consists of virtual servers that are designed for
accommodating the substantial fluctuations in the power of processing and the volume of
data, while allowing ubiquitous utilisation of several devices like tablets, smartphones and
computer system. In the case where an employee lost their laptop or the system the resiliency
of cloud provides the ability of the applications and the data. The planning for the application
resiliency in the environment of cloud can provide unique challenges. The strategies can be
related to the people in need of the conventional data centres. The implantation of the cloud
environment can often differ.
Every application possesses a unique HA (High Availability) requirements and
characteristics. AWS offers numerous building blocks of infrastructure for assisting the
organisation for meeting the requirements in a cost efficient method. At the highest level, an
efficient HA strategy includes instance duplication, utilisation of several zones of availability
among a region, balancing the load, automatic scaling, maintaining, and recovery among a
region. The application that are critical, must guarantee a single point for failure that are
identified and assessed on the basis of the availability requirements of the application and risk
profile. An efficient HA strategy would include testing for HA that will be executed for
ensuring the recovery of the applications as per the expectation and not only the recovery of
components (Gai et al., 2016). The recommends that should be included in the BCP of the
business as per the checklist of Morad and Dalbhanjan are:
 Executing multiple instances of Amazon EC2 in several zones of availability
 Elastic balancing of load for load balancing through several zones of availability
 Automatic scaling for automatic recovery of scaling or instance
 Metrics of Amazon cloudwatch