Deploying a Cloud Computing Environment for Indian Railways

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Unit Title: CLOUD-COMPUTING-IT-8003-SP2-2019
Lecturer: Prof. Richard Owens
Project Title: Deploying a cloud computing environment for
the Indian Railways

Contents
Introduction:................................................................................................................... 3
Problem statement............................................................................................................ 3
Strategic Phase................................................................................................................ 4
Work plan...................................................................................................................... 5
Select cloud deployment model(s)........................................................................................ 6
Select cloud service model(s).............................................................................................. 7
Determining who will develop, test, and deploy the cloud services................................................9
Assess and resolve security and privacy issues.......................................................................10
Integrate with existing enterprise services.............................................................................11
Develop a proof-of-concept (POC) before moving to production................................................13
Manage the cloud environment.......................................................................................... 14
References................................................................................................................... 16

Introduction:
Cloud computing is a model that enables convenient, on-demand network access to shared pool
of configurable computing resources. (Rittinghouse & Ransome, 2017) These services are IaaS,
SaaS and PaaS. In cloud computing the whole infrastructure is hosted on a cloud platform on the
cloud service provider’s data centers. Because of its benefits, businesses are migrating their
overall infrastructure to the cloud environment. So moving your infrastructure is really a wise
decision, cloud provides every benefit which you can implement in your physical servers.
Being a business, you can enjoy several benefits when moving your infrastructure to the cloud-
based platform. You can scale up your virtual machines when required and even scaling down is
also easy. Another biggest advantage the cloud platform provides is that you have to pay for
what you are using. So charges will be totally based on the resources you have utilized.
Moreover, the cloud service providers also assure that they can give 99.99% data availability
which means your data will never get lost. So, all your data will be safe and stored in a separate
storage. All finance and management related data you can keep on the cloud as well with high
security.
Problem statement
The deployment of the Cloud computing is going to bring a lot of challenges along with the
benefits that are provided. Service level agreement of the SLA is one of the important aspects
that are going to control the performance of the RailCloud. Due to increase demand of the
railway services the company finds it necessary to advance its service provision. The company
wishes to migrate to the cloud hosting in order to achieve this goal.
Project objectives
The objective of the Project is to deploy a cloud computing environment for the Indian Railways
which would be known as RailCloud.

Strategic Phase
Minister of Railways: Minister of Railways is Chairman and chief decision maker
of CRIS. Indian Railway is a operated by the Government. All the projects are
subject to approval and funded by Ministry of Railways. Chairman gets budget
allocated for cloud adoption project. ( Ranjan, Chatterjee,& Chakraborty, 2016, pp 78-95.)
 Chairman of UIDAI: Ministry of Electronics and IT governs Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI) which implements Aadhaar Act, 2016, requiring all citizens
to have Aadhaar card for Unique Identity.
 Managing Director, CRIS: The senior management must decide for which cloud
environment they should use, whether it is a PaaS or IaaS or SaaS. Based upon their
decision, a CRIS can migrate themselves to the cloud. Provides vision and guidelines for
cloud adoptions.
Tactical Phase:
 Director Finance (CRIS): The finance team will check the pricing of the services what
the CSP are providing and also compare the pricing with other CSPs. Based upon that
they make their decision. Finance team will pay for the services and resources the CRIS
are using to host their infrastructure into the cloud.
 Director Operations (CRIS): the Director of Operations along with The legal team will
make a deal and comes to an agreement with the CSP. Finally, the IT team will look after
the functionality of the application that is hosted into the cloud.
 Cloud Sales Executive: Discuss the cloud project with ministry level professionals and
keep them updated.
 Business Analyst/ Cloud Analyst: Perform targeted studies and evaluations to
understand business outcome objectives, translate those objectives to a cloud strategy,
and recommend cloud technology option to IT management that map to tangible
infrastructure solution.
Operations Phase:
 Cloud Architect: This lead the deployment of cloud-based systems that are scalable,
secure, and aligned with company-wide business and IT Objectives.
 Cloud Software Engineer: Develops the software to integrate the CSP chosen by
leadership