Reducing Risk in Cloud Migration: Solutions and Recommendations

REDUCING RISK IN CLOUD MIGRATION
SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
by
Ujjwal Adhikari
A Minor Thesis
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Applied Information Technology
Supervisor:
Dr. Rachid Hamadi
Victoria University – Sydney, Australia
June, 2019
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Abstract
Overseeing dangers is of fundamental significance for empowering an across
the board reception of distributed computing. Clients need to comprehend the
dangers related with the way toward relocating applications and information,
with the goal that suitable systems can be thought about. Be that as it may,
chance administration in distributed computing varies from hazard
administration in a customary figuring condition because of the one of a kind
quality of the cloud and the clients' reliance on the cloud specialist co-op for
hazard control. This paper exhibits a hazard administration system to help
clients with cloud movement choices and how to reduce risk of cloud
management. Specifically, the structure empowers clients to distinguish
dangers, based on the general significance of the relocation objectives and
investigated the dangers with a semi-quantitative approach. This enables
clients to settle on precise cloud movement choices, considering particular
relocation situations. Our system pursues essential hazard administration
standards and proposes a novel and organized process and an all-around
characterized technique for overseeing dangers and settling on relocation
choices. A reasonable relocation utilize case about cooperative application, for
example, email and record movement is considered to exhibit the materialness
of our work. The outcomes from the contemplated setting appear that dangers
in distributed computing for the most part rely upon the relocation situation
and association setting. A cloud specialist co-op isn't the only one in charge of
relieving every one of the dangers; consequently, depending on the kind of
hazard, the cloud client is likewise in charge of hazard moderation.
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Acknowledgements
I am very thankful to Prof Dr. Rachid Hamadi for guiding and supporting me
with this thesis. He showed me on how thesis should be done and helped me a
lot during every phases of this thesis.
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Statement of Originality
I certify that this thesis contains no material which has been accepted for the
award of any other degree or diploma in any institute, college or university,
and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material
previously published or written by another person, except where due
references are made in the text of the thesis.
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Ujjwal Adhikari
October, 2018
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Table of Contents
Abstract..............................................................................................................................................ii
Acknowledgements...........................................................................................................................iii
Statement of Originality....................................................................................................................iv
Table of Contents...............................................................................................................................v
List of Figures..................................................................................................................................vii
Chapter 1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................1
Chapter 2 Basic Concept....................................................................................................................3
2.1 Definition of Cloud Computing................................................................................................3
2.2 Historical Backdrop of Cloud Computing................................................................................4
2.3 Advantages & Disadvantages of Cloud....................................................................................5
2.4 Service Delivery Model............................................................................................................5
2.5 Deployment Model...................................................................................................................5
2.6 Task Scheduling.......................................................................................................................5
Chapter 3 Review of Related Work....................................................................................................6
3.1 A Risk Management Framework for Cloud Migration Decision Support.................................6
3.2 Risks and Solutions of Cloud Migration...................................................................................9
3.3 An Analysis of the Cloud Computing Security Problem........................................................11
3.4 Assessing Systemic Risk to Cloud Computing Technology as Complex Interconnected
Systems of Systems......................................................................................................................13
3.5 Data Security and Privacy Protection.....................................................................................15
3.6 Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud Computing...................................................................17
Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison................................................................................................21
4.1 Analysis of Approaches..........................................................................................................21
4.1.1 Approach of A Risk Management Framework for Cloud Migration Decision Support...21
Chapter 5 Scenarios and Recommendations.....................................................................................22
Chapter 6 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................23
References........................................................................................................................................24
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List of Figures
Figure 1 Steps of cloud migration...................................................................................5
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Cloud computing is a form for facilitating widespread, on-demand as well as
suitable network access to a communal collection of configurable computing
possessions that can be promptly provisioned as well as unconfined with
diminutive to no administration attempt or service provider relations”. It
engages providing capital to customers by service suppliers over the Internet.
Such possessions may perhaps be in form of calculating power, storage in
addition to consumer applications.
Cloud computing provides huge advantages to associations as well as
enterprises comparable. Associations do not require investing a lot on
industrial infrastructure for the reason that the infrastructure is accessible
with the Cloud service providers (Krutz & Vines, 2010). This leads to a
substantial lessening in the squandering both on equipment in addition to
safeguarding of computing infrastructure. In addition, services offered by a
CSP permit an association to focus on initiatives, training of human resources
as well as more inventive techniques of doing things. The replica is in
addition well-suited for little as well as medium commerce for the reason that
it facilitates adopting IT without open funds in infrastructure, software
permits along with other applicable requirements.
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