MITS5002 - Exploring Cloud Computing in Modern Software Engineering

This report provides an overview of cloud computing and its integration into software engineering practices. It begins by defining cloud computing and highlighting its key features such as on-demand self-service, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The report then delves into cloud computing architecture, focusing on the three primary service models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It outlines the roles of service providers, service consumers, and service brokers within this architecture. Furthermore, the report discusses the advantages of cloud computing, including improved performance, reduced software costs, elimination of costly hardware, instant software updates, high storage capacity, increased data reliability, and accessibility from anywhere. The disadvantages, such as feature limitations, reliance on internet speed, and data security risks, are also addressed. Finally, the report touches on the future applications of cloud computing, anticipating mainstream adoption challenges and the potential shift of the IT sector towards cloud servers. References to academic papers are included to support the analysis.

CLOUD COMPUTING
IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Cloud computing
 Cloud computing is one of the
developing technology that
offers new opportunity towards
the software engineering.
 Features offered includes:
 Provides on demand self service
 Allows resource pooling
 Rapid elasticity can be developed
 Measured service
 Cloud offers Pay as you access

Cloud Computing Architecture
 The types of architecture
offered by the architecture
includes
 SaaS ( Software as a Service)
 PaaS (Platform as a Service)
 IaaS (Infrastructure as a
Service)

Role of service
 Service provider is responsible for
developing and hosting the services.
 Service consumer is the authority who
uses the service in order to build an
application.
 Service broker helps in providing service
providers and helps the service
consumers to know more about the
available services.

Advantages of cloud computing
 Improves the performance
 Software cost gets reduced
 There is no need of costly hardware
components
 Instant software updates
 Offers high storage capacity
 Data reliability gets increased
 Documents can be accessed over any place
 Latest version of the software is available

Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
 The feature gets limited sometimes
 It is difficult to work at low speed
connections
 Data stored are subjected to some
risks
 Sometimes the data stored within
the cloud server goes missing

Future Application
 It is expected that mainstream
adoption can lead to problems
 Newly developed systems can be
installed within the system
 the whole IT sector is expected
to shift in Cloud Server.

References
 Almorsy, Mohamed, John Grundy, and Ingo Müller. "An analysis of the
cloud computing security problem." arXiv preprint
arXiv:1609.01107 (2016).
 Armbrust, Michael, et al. "A view of cloud computing." Communications
of the ACM 53.4 (2010): 50-58.
 Botta, Alessio, et al. "Integration of cloud computing and internet of
things: a survey." Future Generation Computer Systems 56 (2016):
684-700.
 Bahrami, Mehdi, and Mukesh Singhal. "The role of cloud computing
architecture in big data." Information granularity, big data, and
computational intelligence. Springer, Cham, 2015. 275-295.