SBM4104 IT Infrastructure: Cloud Computing, Security, and Management

This assignment is a poster presentation on a recent topic in IT Infrastructure (SBM4104). It identifies and classifies the different components used in building an IT infrastructure, discusses the use of virtualization and cloud computing to provide IT infrastructure solutions to organizations, illustrates dynamic scaling of applications with the support of cloud computing, demonstrates the security issues related to the use of the cloud as an IT infrastructure solution, and critiques the role and responsibility of an IT infrastructure manager. The poster uses visuals and graphics to outline key messages.

IT INFRASTRUCTURE
IT infrastructure components
The main components associated with IT
infrastructure are computer hardware
platforms, operating system platforms,
internet platforms and networking and
telecommunication platforms.
Use of virtualization
and cloud computing
The main reason behind
virtualization in cloud
computing is that it offers
better flexibility towards the
organization.
•Helps in allocating the
resources effectively and will
help in performing the
functions within the
organization.
•This provides remote access
and also ensures rapid
scalability.
•Moreover it also offers pay
Dynamic scaling of
application
Dynamic scaling helps in
providing powerful
computing model this helps
user to access the resources
on demand. This also offers
better s scalability towards
the IT infrastructure of the
organization.
Security issues with Cloud in IT
infrastructure
Role of IT infrastructure
manager
The major responsibility is to
have better expectations,
planning and monitoring. The
infrastructure manager helps in
organizing all the activities
within the organization.
•Denial of service attacks
•Employee negligence
•Data loss
•System vulnerabilities
•Phishing and other malicious
attacks
References
Almorsy, M., Grundy, J. and Müller, I., 2016. An
analysis of the cloud computing security
problem. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01107.
Chen, Z., Xu, G., Mahalingam, V., Ge, L., Nguyen, J., Yu, W. and Lu,
C., 2016. A cloud computing based network monitoring and
threat detection system for critical infrastructures. Big Data
Research, 3, pp.10-23.