Cloud Computing Applications and Migration

This assignment delves into various applications of cloud computing platforms. It examines how cloud platforms are used for cost-effective offloading of mobile applications and discuss the implementation of IoT-oriented data storage frameworks within these platforms. Furthermore, it explores multi-cloud service architectures and analyzes techniques for virtual machine migration in load balancing scenarios for enhanced performance and resource utilization.

Running head: VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING
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Assessment Title: Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Webb Store
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Executive summary
This report depicts the importance of platform migration to increase the information security.
The ebb Store food delivering company serves their products in Australia and New Zealand as
well. For managing information preliminarily the company uses MS SQL 212, R2 database but
the data management was not at all effective. In order to mitigate the issues associated to this
system the company is willing to migrate, their existing data management platform. With the
help of cloud platform the company will be able to get different beneficial components both the
consumers and business perspectives.

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Table of Contents
1. Webb’s have decided to migrate their MS SQL Server 2012 R2 database to an IaaS instance in
the cloud........................................................................................................................................ 3
a. Description of the type of security that would protect the database....................................3
b. Describe the benefits and issues that would be the result of the deployment for these
security measures......................................................................................................................4
2. Risk associated to platform migration.......................................................................................5
a. The database..........................................................................................................................5
b. The IaaS infrastructure...........................................................................................................5
c. The communication between the Webb Store and their IaaS database in the cloud............6
3. Webb Sore is considering Cloud for data backup and possibly for the achievement of records
....................................................................................................................................................... 6
a. Risks and issues associated to backing up data to the cloud.................................................6
i. Back-up data to cloud......................................................................................................... 6
ii. Storage of data to cloud.....................................................................................................6
iii. Retrieval of data to cloud..................................................................................................7
b. The way through which the Webb Store could use cloud backup that affect their DR plans 7
4. Explanation of the ways through which Webb Store could protect data while moving to the
cloud.............................................................................................................................................. 7
a. The IaaS infrastructure...........................................................................................................7
b. The MS SQL Server 2012, R2 cloud instance..........................................................................8
c. The cloud network infrastructure.......................................................................................... 8
d. The cloud backup and restore infrastructure........................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................... 10

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1. Webb’s have decided to migrate their MS SQL Server 2012 R2 database
to an IaaS instance in the cloud
a. Description of the type of security that would protect the database
The regional retailer named as Webb Stores, food staff delivering company serves their
services in Australia and New Zealand as well. Apart from certain food staffs it also offers some
specialty items to the consumers of Australia and New Zealand as well. As the company offers
online services to the consumer and it has two different data centers in Melbourne and Sydney
thus the data management approach of the company is becoming difficult to them. Currently
the company uses MS SQL Server 2012, R2 database for managing information but it is not
standing beneficial for the service providers. Therefore, in order to mitigate the issues of data
management the company is planning for migrate their platform from the existing one to the
Cloud IaaS platform.
The cloud platform is more secured than the traditional Information technology based
platforms. For a specific data server or data storage the security needs are different. If any kind
of data managerial level challenges occurs then that could be identified and mitigated sooner
through cloud features (Kamateri et al., 2013). It has encryption mechanism and with the help if
the encryption mechanism none of the external users will be able to access data from the
server without proper decryption keys. In addition to this, other security measures associated
to the cloud platform are authentication and security application firewall (Razali et al., 2014).

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With the help of the firewall none of the unwanted external users will be able to access data
from the server.
b. Describe the benefits and issues that would be the result of the deployment
for these security measures
Benefits Risks
Lower capital cost: With the help of the large
scale computing resources the cloud service
providers will be able to unique service to the
consumers (Jamshidi, Pahl Chinenyeze & Liu,
2015).
Environmental security: The rate of security
level threats increases with the adoption of
cloud based platform. The virus, malware,
Brute force attacks and DOS attacks took place
much with the usage of the cloud platform.
Lower IT operation costs: Cloud provides
flexibility to the consumers for hosting the
virtual IT infrastructure
Data privacy and security: If the internet
connectivity gets lost then, risks might occur.
The control over the data also gets reduced
after the cloud based platform (Wood et al.,
2015)
No maintenance cost: The cost for the
maintenance of software and hardware are
required
Record retention: The record storage
operation of loud is not that mush secured.

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Optimized IT infrastructure: The IT
infrastructure gives immediate access that is
required for serving the computing services
(Chen et al., 2015)
Disaster recovery: If any of the information
gets lost from the server then even though
that could not be accessed but still the access
approach is not at all easier.
2. Risk associated to platform migration
a. The database
 Excessive Privilege
 Privilege abuse
 Database injection attack
 Malware attack (Ding, Chao & Yang, 2016)
 Exploitation of vulnerable information
 Unmanageable sensitive information
 Different human attacks
 Multilayered security solution
b. The IaaS infrastructure
 Most expensive
 The consumers are responsible for the data backup
 For VM management the consumers are responsible
 No control over the server is available (Chae et al., 2014)

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c. The communication between the Webb Store and their IaaS database in the
cloud
If proper communication is not established then the service providers will fail to
transmit information to the destination easily (Jiang, et al., 2014).
3. Webb Sore is considering Cloud for data backup and possibly for the
achievement of records
a. Risks and issues associated to backing up data to the cloud
i. Back-up data to cloud
The cloud computing system does not have limited storage capacity. Thus, the users of
the system could store the information as a backup in the storage (Wang et al., 2016). Though,
data could be stored in terms of also backup but still it is little difficult to access the information
from backup server.
ii. Storage of data to cloud
If the information are stored in the server and proper encryption algorithm are not used
then the external users can easily come and access the information from the server (Kamateri
et al., 2013).
iii. Retrieval of data to cloud
The data retrieval ability must be available to a specific group of people and if it is not
specified then, anybody will get the opportunity to retrieve information from the cloud server.

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b. The way through which the Webb Store could use cloud backup that affect
their DR plans
For the cloud based solution disaster recovery is not at all a proper solution and before
its implementation within a firm its shortcomings and challenges are required to be understood
by the management authority of Webb Stores (Shiraz & Gani, 2014). No single approach for
disaster recovery is there and based on the type of business each business has different DR
planning. For Webb Store the most suitable cloud based solution is the replication of virtual
machines in the cloud (Kamateri et al., 2013). The replicas of the files or information are stored
in the replicated virtual machine. It gives continuous data protection at the same time.
4. Explanation of the ways through which Webb Store could protect data
while moving to the cloud
a. The IaaS infrastructure
As Webb Store is currently willing to move their data management platform to IaaS
cloud based one thus, the IaaS platform can be kept secured from the secured attackers with
the help of the followings:
1. Regular update scheduling of the updates software
2. Adoption of proper patching procedure
3. Understanding the details requirements for audit and monitoring
4. Regular testing and vulnerability analysis of the IaaS platform
5. Data encryption (Razali et al., 2014)

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6. Access control system
b. The MS SQL Server 2012, R2 cloud instance
In order to secure the information stored in the data server, it is necessary to consider
the following:
 Platform and the network security including the physical security, operating
system security, and database object security
 Application level security
 SQL server security tools and utilities as well
 Data encryption and certification
c. The cloud network infrastructure
Proper controls over the stored information in the data server are required, so that
none of the external users could come and access information from the server (Jamshidi, Pahl
Chinenyeze & Liu, 2015).. The network through which the information will be transferred
should be encrypted so that none of the external users could access the confidential
information from the server. In addition to this, another important factor that should be
considered includes database monitoring technology and usage of SIEM tools (Shiraz & Gani,
2014). With the proper network access control system the unauthorized users will not be able
to access information from the server where Webb Stores their confidential information.

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d. The cloud backup and restore infrastructure
1. The backup and restore ability of IaaS infrastructure will protect information
automatically without the requirement of costly on site hardware as well as
administrative overhead.
2. With the help of Multi region public cloud the data recovery could be enabled
through reliability, durability, fastest and cost effectiveness (Jamshidi, Pahl
Chinenyeze & Liu, 2015).
3. The information would be entirely encrypted in the transmission level with no
such vendor access possibility
4. The virtual machines can be easily pushed towards any direction or in any global
direction (Razali et al., 2014)
5. In order to store the replicate virtual machines again the IaaS cloud platform is
very much helpful
6. As the information are stored in the cloud thus those are ready for data mining,
legal and compliances requirements (Chae et al., 2014).

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