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DSI Cloud Migration Case

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[institutions name]

[institutions state]

[date]
SUMMARY OF THE REPORT:

The report covers that the department of spatial information (DSI) which is a government based
department and its services are to provide information to the other government departments and few
of its information to the common people. As the department has to provide information to both the
government departments and public it has to use different web services which will deliver the
information through some applications. The collection of web services and applications is known as the
DSI online spatial delivery system.

As now the DSI has got some new projects to work which will increase the requirement of its spatial
data to a large extent. The executive management of DSI has got some proposals regarding the new
projects and they are looking on to the suitable proposals. The two main proposals which the
management is focusing are:

1. By increasing the in-house DSI Data Centre Capacity to host and support the new projects in the
OSDS. This requires a minimum increase of 50% in web infrastructure and supports the service
within the departments. This requires a increase in the data centre infrastructure, number of
servers and the bandwidth available to DSI
2. Transferring the OSDS to a cloud provider. This will allow the DSI to develop and process the
data within the house maintenance and then relocate the copy of all the data to cloud based
delivery system for publication.

DSI is deciding to adopt the second proposal as it is cheaper and easy to transfer the data as well.

The recommended cloud delivery and deployment model for this case is PaaS and Hybrid respectively.
PaaS is utilized as it will help DSI concentrating on building programming on top of the stage and didn't
really need to stress over introducing, overseeing, and fixing LAMP stacks or Windows OS. Hybrid
deployment will permit DSI to host its basic applications on private cloud and applications with
moderately less security worries on the general population cloud.

Further elaboration on the migration process is discussed in detail below.


SELECT OF MODELS:

Delivery Model

The delivery model utilized for this relocation is PaaS. PaaS takes us one level higher in the stack
and digests that OS, database, application server, and programming dialect. PaaS is an idea that
portrays a processing stage that is leased or delivered as an incorporated / stacked solution or
administration through an Internet association (Mell and Grance 2009).

The solution stack might be an arrangement of parts or programming subsystems used to build
up a completely utilitarian item or administration, for example, a Web application that uses an
OS, Web server, database and programming dialect. All the more nonexclusively, the solutionn
stack may convey an OS, middleware, database or application.

Support

Utilizing PaaS will help DSI concentrating on building programming on top of the stage and
didn't really need to stress over introducing, overseeing, and fixing LAMP stacks or Windows OS.
PaaS additionally deals with scaling, failover, and numerous other specialized outline
contemplation so developers can concentrate on business applications and less on the
fundamental IT "plumbing" (Brohi, and Bamiah 2011).

Deployment Model

The proposed deployment model for DSI is Hybrid. It is a sort of distributed computing, which is
incorporated. This arrangement model helps organizations to exploit secured applications and
information facilitating on a private cloud, while as yet getting a charge out of money saving
advantages by keeping shared information and applications on the general population cloud.
Advantages of the various organization models are accessible in a half breed cloud facilitating. A
mixture cloud can cross disconnection and overcome limits by the supplier; thus, it can't be
essentially ordered into open, private or group cloud. It allows the client to expand the limit or
the ability by conglomeration, digestion or customization with another cloud
bundle/administration. In a half and half cloud, the assets are overseen and gave either in-house
or by outside suppliers. It is an adjustment among two stages in which the workload trades
between the private cloud and the general population cloud according to the need and request
(Mell and Grance 2009).

Support

This cloud arrangement model is chosen because of blended needs of DSI. As this is mix of two
or more cloud administration organization models, it will permit DSI to host its basic applications
on private cloud and applications with moderately less security worries on the general public
cloud. A blend of an open and a private cloud is joined together with the end goal of keeping
business-basic information and administrations in their control on private cloud and out
sourcing less-basic handling to general public cloud (Brohi, and Bamiah 2011).

Cloud Architecture:

The proposed cloud architecture for the given case is depicted in the figure below:

RISK ASSESSMENT:

(Source: Savu, 2011)

Risk of security of asset partaking in Multi-occupant cloud situations


Privacy, Integrity and Availability of touchy government and subjects' information
Absence of perceivability of cloud merchants' efforts to establish safety to government
organizations and administration buyers
Absence of Control with government organizations and administration customers over security
strategies authorized by cloud suppliers
Application and Account level security issues: As cloud is a model taking into account web which
has its own particular security concerns like hacking where records can be abused, this is
bothered because of new cloud particular Interfaces and APIs being used that are not tried for
security after some time.
Security trade off because of feeble Identity, Access Mgmt and Authorization procedures

MITIGATION STRATEGY:
Source: (Metri and Sarote 2011)

CONCLUSION

Cloud computing is an innovation that has the capacity of changing how IT frameworks are delivered
and deployed due to its evidently shabby, basic and adaptable nature. The discoveries of this contextual
investigation demonstrate that distributed computing can be a fundamentally less expensive option that
to acquiring and keeping up framework foundation in-house. Besides, it conceivably dispose of
numerous support-related issues subsequent to there would be no physical framework to keep up.
Notwithstanding these points of interest, this contextual investigation demonstrated that there are
security issues that should be considered before associations could move their IT frameworks to the
cloud. If these risks are tackled carefully, agencies like DSI can make the most of this technology.
REFRENCES

Mell, P., Grance, T. (2009) The NIST definition of cloud computing, [Online], Available:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc. [Accessed: 1-May- 2016].

Brohi, S., and Bamiah, M. (2011) Challenges and Benefits for Adopting theParadigm of Cloud
Computing International Journal of Advanced Engineering Sciences and Technologies, (IJAEST), vol. 8,
pp.286-290.

Savu, L. (2011) Cloud Computing: Deployment Models, Delivery Models, Risks and Research
Challenges, in Computer and Management (CAMAN), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 1-4.

Metri, P. and Sarote, G. (2011) Privacy Issues and Challenges in CloudComputing (2011) International
Journal of Advanced Engineering Sciencesand Technologies (IJAEST), vol. 5, pp.1-6, 2011.

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