Cloud Computing Presentation: Regional Gardens' Infrastructure Upgrade

This presentation outline explores the adoption of cloud computing for Regional Gardens, a company with an outdated data center. It defines cloud computing, emphasizing its function of storing data remotely and discusses the advantages, such as cost-effectiveness, secure data storage, and mobile access. The presentation then details different cloud architectures including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Ultimately, the presentation recommends the PaaS approach for Regional Gardens, given its existing infrastructure. References include sources discussing cloud computing concepts, architectures, and service models. This presentation provides a clear overview of cloud computing and its practical application for the company.

Cloud Computing in
Regional Gardens

Presentation Outline
• Introduction
• What is Cloud Computing?
• Reasons for choosing Cloud/Advantages
• Different Cloud Architectures
• Platform as a Service
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Software as a Service
• Chosen Approach
• Conclusion

Introduction
• Regional Gardens has a small data center in its main site.
Company’s servers and data storage is located in Regional
Gardens.
• The Company has an existing architecture that has not been
updated for some time and a full upgrade will cost more than
its worth. Therefore, Regional Gardens is planning to move to
a cloud based infrastructure for storage and access of their
data. (Jadeja & Modi, 2012)

What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud computing can be defined as a
process of storing data over internet.
In cloud computing, the data is stored
in the remote servers hosted over
internet and not in local server
(Garrison, Kim & Wakefield, 2012.

Continued..
• Cloud computing relies on shared computing resources
and does not stores information in local servers of personal
devices. (Sefraoui et al., 2012)
• The Cloud services are therefore delivered over internet and
can be obtained in subscription basis.

Reasons for choosing
Cloud/Advantages
• The advantages of cloud are as
follows (Jadeja, & Modi, 2012)-
• It is a cost effective solution
• Provides option for secure data
storage
• Offers mobile access to the data
stored over cloud server

Different Cloud Architectures
• The three different cloud architecture
that Regional gardens can consider
include-
• PaaS or Platform as a service
• IaaS or Infrastructure as a service
• SaaS or Software as a service

Platform as a Service
• Platform as a service is an application
platform that provides a platform for
deploying cloud. (Malfara, 2013)
• In the platform provided by PaaS,
customers are allowed to develop
manage and run the application
without any complexity.
• IT helps in integrating all the essential
operations of the organization.

Infrastructure as a Service
• Infrastructure as a service is a cloud
computing service that provides
virtualized computing resources over
the internet (Moreno-Vozmediano,
Montero & Llorente, I2012).
• IaaS is a service model that delivers a
computing infrastructure to the client
for accessing the cloud services.

Software as a Service
• It is a distributed model of cloud
computing where a third party
provider host a common application
and makes them available to general
public.
• It is a process of delivering cloud
applications over internet as a
service.

Chosen Approach
• Analyzing the different advantages and disadvantages of all
the approaches, it is recommended for Regional Gardens to
deploy cloud in PaaS approach.
• This approach is recommended as the organization already
posses an infrastructure that can be moved onto cloud.

Conclusion
• The concept of cloud computing is analyzed in this
presentation in order to evaluate which cloud approach will
be appropriate Regional Gardens.
• Considering the fact that the organization already posses a
configured infrastructure, platform as a service is
recommended so that Regional Gardens can make use of
their existing architecture.

References
• Garrison, G., Kim, S., & Wakefield, R. L. (2012). Success factors for deploying cloud computing. Communications of the
ACM, 55(9), 62-68.
• Hossain, S. (2012). Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud Computing Service and Deployment Models: Layers and
Management, 26-49.
• Jadeja, Y., & Modi, K. (2012, March). Cloud computing-concepts, architecture and challenges. In Computing, Electronics
and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on (pp. 877-880). IEEE.
• Jadeja, Y., & Modi, K. (2012, March). Cloud computing-concepts, architecture and challenges. In Computing, Electronics
and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on (pp. 877-880). IEEE.
• Malfara, D. (2013). Platform as a Service. working paper ACC 626, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 3 July.
• Moreno-Vozmediano, R., Montero, R. S., & Llorente, I. M. (2012). Iaas cloud architecture: From virtualized datacenters
to federated cloud infrastructures. Computer, 45(12), 65-72.
• Sefraoui, O., Aissaoui, M., & Eleuldj, M. (2012). OpenStack: toward an open-source solution for cloud
computing. International Journal of Computer Applications, 55(3).