Introduction to Cloud Computing 1.

Answer the following questions

When you store your photos online instead of on your home 1. What is cloud computing?
computer, or use webmail or a social networking site, you are 2. Could you state some cloud
using a “cloud computing” service. If you are an organization, services?
and you want to use, for example, an online invoicing service 3. What does an IaaS provide?
instead of updating the in-house one you have been using for 4. What is the difference between
many years, that online invoicing service is a “cloud private cloud and public cloud?
computing” service. 5. What are the advantages of cloud
computing?
Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources 6. What are the disadvantages of
over the Internet. Instead of keeping data on your own hard cloud computing?
drive or updating applications for your needs, you use a 7. What is the difference between
service over the Internet, at another location, to store your PaaS and Saas?
information or use its applications. Doing so may give rise to
certain privacy implications. 2. Match the terms with the statement:
A. IaaS
- Definition B. PaaS
- Charactiristics C. SaaS
- On demand self service D. On-demand self service
- Broadd network access E. Audit trail
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- Rapid elasticity 1. A categories of cloud computing that
- Measure service provides a platform and environment to
- Saas, Paas and Iaas allow developers to build applications and
- Private and public cloud services over the internet. B
2. A form of cloud computing that
provides virtualized computing resources
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over over the Internet. A
the Internet. Cloud services allow individuals and businesses 3. The service provided by cloud
to use software and hardware that are managed by third parties computing vendors that enables the
at remote locations. Examples of cloud services include online provision of cloud resources on demand
file storage, social networking sites, webmail, and online whenever they are required. D
business applications. The cloud computing model allows 4. A soft licensing and delivery model in
access to information and computer resources from anywhere which software is licensed on a
that a network connection is available. Cloud computing subscription basis and is centrally hosted.
provides a shared pool of resources, including data storage C
space, networks, computer processing power, and specialized 5. A system that traces the detailed
corporate and user applications. transactions relating to any item in an
accounting record. E
The characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self
service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid 3. Mark the following statements as True
elasticity and measured service. On-demand self service means or False
that customers (usually organizations) can request and manage 1. Gmail is cloud computing service. T
their own computing resources. Broad network access allows 2. We can hire iOS with IaaS. F
services to be offered over the Internet or private networks. 3. We could have Word processing service
Pooled resources means that customers draw from a pool of with PaaS. F
computing resources, usually in remote data centres. Services 4. Only the data owner can access data
can be scaled larger or smaller; and use of a service is stored in cloud. F
measured and customers are billed accordingly. 5. Users could have as many resources as
they need from the cloud. T
The cloud computing service models are Software as a Service
(SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS). In a Software as a Service model (SaaS), a pre-
made application, along with any required software, operating
system, hardware, and network are provided. In PaaS, an
operating system, hardware, and network are provided, and the
customer installs or develops its own software and
applications. The IaaS model provides just the hardware and
network; the customer installs or develops its own operating
systems, software and applications.

Cloud services are typically made available via a private cloud,

community cloud, public cloud or hybrid cloud.
Generally speaking, services provided by a public cloud are
offered over the Internet and are owned and operated by a
cloud provider. Some examples include services aimed at the
general public, such as online photo storage services, e-mail
services, or social networking sites. However, services for
enterprises can also be offered in a public cloud.
In a private cloud, the cloud infrastructure is operated solely
for a specific organization, and is managed by the organization
or a third party.
In a community cloud, the service is shared by several
organizations and made available only to those groups. The
infrastructure may be owned and operated by the organizations
or by a cloud service provider.
A hybrid cloud is a combination of different methods of
resource pooling (for example, combining public and
community clouds).

Cloud services are popular because they can reduce the cost
and complexity of owning and operating computers and
networks. Since cloud users do not have to invest in
information technology infrastructure, purchase hardware, or
buy software licences, the benefits are low up-front costs,
rapid return on investment, rapid deployment, customization,
flexible use, and solutions that can make use of new
innovations. In addition, cloud providers that have specialized
in a particular area (such as e-mail) can bring advanced
services that a single company might not be able to afford or
develop.
Some other benefits to users include scalability, reliability, and
efficiency. Scalability means that cloud computing offers
unlimited processing and storage capacity. The cloud is
reliable in that it enables access to applications and documents
anywhere in the world via the Internet. Cloud computing is
often considered efficient because it allows organizations to
free up resources to focus on innovation and product
development.
Another potential benefit is that personal information may be
better protected in the cloud. Specifically, cloud computing
may improve efforts to build privacy protection into
technology from the start and the use of better security
mechanisms. Cloud computing will enable more flexible IT
acquisition and improvements, which may permit adjustments
to procedures based on the sensitivity of the data. Widespread
use of the cloud may also encourage open standards for cloud
computing that will establish baseline data security features
common across different services and providers. Cloud
computing may also allow for better audit trails. In addition,
information in the cloud is not as easily lost (when compared
to the paper documents or hard drives, for example).
While there are benefits, there are privacy and security
concerns too. Data is travelling over the Internet and is stored
in remote locations. In addition, cloud providers often serve
multiple customers simultaneously. All of this may raise the
scale of exposure to possible breaches, both accidental and
deliberate.
Concerns have been raised by many that cloud computing may
lead to “function creep”— uses of data by cloud providers that
were not anticipated when the information was originally
collected and for which consent has typically not been
obtained. Given how inexpensive it is to keep data, there is
little incentive to remove the information from the cloud and
more reasons to find other things to do with it.
Security issues, the need to segregate data when dealing with
providers that serve multiple customers, potential secondary
uses of the data — these are areas that organizations should
keep in mind when considering a cloud provider and when
negotiating contracts or reviewing terms of service with a
cloud provider. Given that the organization transferring this
information to the provider is ultimately accountable for its
protection, it needs to ensure that the personal information is
appropriate handled.