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Regional Gardens Ltd is a company that runs a number of related gardening enterprises. It has a large display garden that it opens for public inspection a number of times a year. These enterprises include the Regional Gardens Nursery which sells plants and garden supplies to the public, and Regional Garden Planners which provides garden advice, design and consultancy services.

Regional Gardens Ltd has a small data centre at its main site in Bathurst where the company’s servers and data storage is located. The company has the following server infrastructure:

  • 2 x Active Directory domain controllers on Windows Server 2008 R2, (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 140GB HDD);
  • 3 x SQL Server 2003 database servers on Windows Server XXXXXXXXXXx Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 250GB RAID-5 array); 1
  • 1 x Exchange 2007 email server on Windows Server 2008 R2 (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);
  • 4 x Windows Server 2003 File and Print servers (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);
  • 2 x Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux servers running Apache and TomCat (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 16GB RAM, 140GB HDD).

This infrastructure has not been updated for some time and the Regional Gardens Board is concerned that a full upgrade may now cost them more than it is worth. The Board is now considering moving some, or all, of their current infrastructure into the Cloud. The Board sees this as a strategic move to future-proof the company.

Regional Gardens has engaged you as a consultant to advise them on the use of Cloud Computing in their daily operations. They have some 70 garden design, horticultural and support staff that work on different projects for clients in New South Wales. They have been advised that a move to using a Cloud based infrastructure would be an advantage to them.
Your task is to:

  1. Prepare a PowerPoint briefing for the Regional Gardens board. Your briefing should:
    1. Explain the main concepts of Cloud Computing and why you think that a move to the Cloud could be good for Regional Gardens;
    2. Explain some of the Cloud Architectures that you think would be useful for Regional Gardens to use as part of their Cloud infrastructure. This explanation should also briefly discuss how the current Regional Gardens infrastructure could be replicated or replaced in a Cloud deployment.
    3. Each slide in the briefing must also include speaking notes in the notes section to explain the slide, and all images used in the briefing should be referenced. (20 marks)
  2. One of Regional Gardens’s first undertakings is to provide all their staff with the ability to access office automation, such as email, word processing and spreadsheet capabilities, as well as online storage for their files, whether they are in the office, at home, or deployed on a customer’s site in the field. The Regional Gardens board is very concerned to learn about the critical issues, other than cost, that may affect the supply of Cloud based office automation to their staff. You will need to prepare a report on the best way to provide office automation for Regional Gardens. Your report should:
    1. Provide Regional Gardens with TWO different approaches to providing office automation to their staff;
    2. Outline the major benefits and issues with each approach;
    3. Provide a summary of your advice to this company along with your recommendation about which option to choose. Your report should be no longer than 2 pages. (20 marks)
  3. Regional Gardens has a single data centre in Bathurst which contains the following infrastructure:
    • 2 x Active Directory domain controllers on Windows Server 2008 R2, (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 140GB HDD);
    • 3 x SQL Server 2003 database servers on Windows Server XXXXXXXXXXx Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 250GB RAID-5 array);
    • 1 x Exchange 2007 email server on Windows Server 2008 R2 (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);
    • 4 x Windows Server 2003 File and Print servers (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);
    • 2 x Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux servers running Apache and TomCat (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 16GB RAM, 140GB HDD).
    1. Regional Gardens is considering initially moving its Web infrastructure to a public Cloud, but they are unsure of whether they should migrate to an IaaS or PaaS solution. You are to write a report for the Regional Gardens board that:
      1. Describes the difference between infrastructure provided using an IaaS provider and a platform provided by a PaaS provider in a public Cloud. You will need to discuss the critical differences, issues and factors, other than cost, that Regional Gardens will have to consider in choosing to migrate their existing Web infrastructure to either an IaaS or a PaaS service provider. Your report should take no more than two pages. (30 marks)
  4. Regional Gardens is also considering whether to use PaaS or SaaS to provide services to its employees. Regional Gardens has deployed Microsoft SharePoint 2010 from its data centre as a collaboration and document management tool for its 70 staff. The SharePoint 2010 instance has been extensively customised to suit Regional Gardens needs and also runs Project Central, their Project Management tool as a separate application from within SharePoint. All employees have the Microsoft Office 2010 suite of office automation products installed on their respective desktops or laptops. Regional Gardens would like to move its SharePoint 2010 instance to the cloud to make it more accessible, particularly to its users working at customer’s sites. Regional Gardens want you to report on:
    1. What are the major differences between the models IaaS, PaaS and SaaS? (5 marks)
    2. Recommend the model that you consider most appropriate for this service and discuss why this model is the most appropriate for the SharePoint service. (10 marks)
    3. What are the most likely problems that Regional Gardens will encounter with the model that you recommend? How would you advise Regional Gardens to deal with these issues? (15 marks)
    4. Your report for this question should be no more than 3 pages.
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Amit answered on Apr 03 2020
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The moving processes with different devices of data off through internet services where all data storage and required processes are executing on some servers is known as cloud computing. The collection of different network servers where users are executing and performing all requirements is known as cloud [Stergiou et al, 2018].
The cloud computing
ing so many different advantages to its users or clients. The main benefits obtained by client through the cloud computing is mentioned below:
1. The cloud resources are elastic by their nature of execution. The regional gardens can make scale up and scale down the requirements as well as environment of certain specifications.
2. These are metered services. The regional gardens of cloud are only responsible for payments of only used services. The time period is responsible to determine total charges.
3. The cloud services are cost effective, flexible and easily scalable.
4. It allows the regional gardens to move their tasks offsite.
IaaS model for making office automation
This is the main layer of cloud computing in which all infrastructure related requirements of all clients are being accomplished. The server and virtually distributed resource pool are key elements to define IaaS. The IaaS clients can ask for IP addresses, virtual servers to handle emails, files or other operations, and virtual data servers for allowing its customers to store the data online. All the services provided by IaaS are in absolute control of particular vender. The vender creates different centers for hosting IaaS services globally. So, basically, the venders are resource suppliers to clients. The IaaS leads to following merits for its clients:
1. The IaaS clients are allowed for creating VM and all controls of that VM are provided to regional gardens.
2. The complete control of VM improves the overall security.
3. It provides a simple integration with the infrastructure of any enterprise.
The IaaS leads to following demerits for its clients:
1. All backup related activities must be performed by regional gardens only.
2. The regional garden is only having control on VM not on server.
PaaS model to develop office automation
The cloud model in which the required hardware, software infrastructure platform for development of some new application is provided by vender to its client is known as PaaS. It provides a configuration stack for possible environmental solutions to application development. The client has no requirements for installing any required resource on his / her own infrastructure. The client can just take services of PaaS for application development environment. It also allows it client to even host them for other users. So, PaaS is the nest stage of cloud for IaaS. The PaaS clients can make a selection among all provided service packages from venders [Youseff et al, 2008]. The PaaS leads to following merits for its clients:
1. A complete control on developed application is provided to regional gardens.
2. The regional gardens have full control and access to produced data by developed application.
3. The role of VM is completely removed because of vender.
The PaaS leads to following demerits for its clients:
1. The regional garden is not allowed to control the VM processing.
2. Regional garden has no control to selected development environment.
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The private, public and hy
id cloud are three main types of cloud services. In private cloud service, the personal...
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