Proposed educational Cloud Infrastructure Prototype

Design of Cloud Infrastructure needed the following service and application

- Collaboration Application

Moving email and PIM (personal information manager) to managed service providers. IDC says that 67 percent of survey respondents believe collaboration applications such as email, chat, conferencing and collaborative file sharing solutions such as SharePoint are a great fit for the cloud because they reduce costs in the short term [7]. For collaboration application GMAIL apps come in handy without any charges. For our International conference we can upload spreadsheet for collaboration work where any person involves in maintaining the office work is done online.

- Web Serving

Cloud Sever is the key part of the computing platform to ensure its scalability. All the resource can be store at this cloud server which includes online videos, audios, pictures, and course wares etc. This web server infrastructure in cloud computing can share resources for educational and research purposes.

- Cloud Backup

Drop Box is a free service to take back up of our data in cloud environment it enable synchronize with any device wherever drop box is install. A cloud backup service can be enabling on university campus to safeguard of student, staff, and lecture data.

- Business Applications

Hosted in the cloud are probably the most promising cloud service and the most interesting topic for computer science education because it can give businesses the option to pay as they go while providing the big-impact benefit of the latest technology advancements [7]. The involvement of students in such type of projects with real customers is mutually beneficial to students, faculty and businesses.

- Personal Productivity Applications

Mobile phone is widely used among student and staff application or service develop in university campus can be used in mobile device also which means every time we are connected to university campus. A university mini Facebook would be a great deal to share and update news among the student and staff.

Figure 3.1 - Google Education Application index

3.1.1 Suggested academic cloud environment

The study aims to suggest a cloud environment for academic purposes. Academic environment is where lots of computer is uses and many of them are not in use which lead to malfunction of computer and maintenance is highly complicated due to lack of staff. The propose cloud computing environment will be of storage infrastructure, development platform, and software delivering. Changing of hardware resources and lots of storage capacity is required in academic environment computing lab [11].

Many universities and colleges started using thin client technology to reduce the cost but thin client is not suitable for high performance computing. Office applications, programming language, and multimedia developing courses are not only for IT department but too many departments also. Also every year, the new versions of applications are used for courses with respect to the needs of industry. As a natural result of this progress, new software cause new hardware costs [11]. Installing and maintaining will be free from everyone. Whenever any new software appears many of hardware don’t support and everyday many bytes of storage are required where loss of data is very high due to improper handling of computer by many student. Student mistakenly or unknowingly deletes other data. By using cloud computing in academic environment collaboration among the staff and student will be more like using Google docs or any other private collaboration design on office 635. Cloud Computing will be of great help. By giving a virtual machine to everyone and a secure password student and staff will work on their own virtual machine and if anything happens will only crash the virtual machine not the entire system. Below Fig.3.2 -represents the proposed cloud computing for academic environment. By this way, lecturers will focus their basic tasks and not lose their workforce. With this cloud computing environment student can work from their lab as well from home. Where there data and application will be available always.

Figure 3.2- Proposed cloud computing structure schematic diagram