Cloud computing known to be one of unique feature in establishing a data mobility, the benefit of
this technology is hard to resist to any company including home and personal use. You are working
in a small/medium company (fastfix.co.uk), the company planning to build a new network
infrastructure and discussing/evaluating the options available, being the IT manager you have
been appointed to study, evaluate, design and implement a new company cloud service to provide
a resilient mobile and storage for all employees, by which all employees will be able to store, share
and access documents and digital files on the move, the system must be able to work in multiple
platform including mobile telephones. This service should be design with the main objective to help
employees and engineers across the country to access information related to work.
The company currently do not have any cloud infrastructure and therefore you report should
explore, analyse and evaluate multiple service and deployment model. The end users at the fastfix
should be able to access files using any platform and/or desktop client over the internet. The
company directors emphasised on mobility and future upcoming project for which the company
planning to include VoIP services.
As a cloud engineer, produce a technical report on the design solution and a security manual that
answers the following:
• Introduce and describe the problem
o Write a rational describing and analytical background of cloud history and evolution,
include some illustration / diagrams to clarify the idea.
o Brief description of the problem and proposed higher level solution description
• Rationale for the solution:
o Discussion on why the solution is appropriate for the scenario.
o Architectural design (architectural diagram and description).
o Deployment model (description of the model, and discussion on why that model was
chosen).
o Service model (description of the model, and discussion on why that model was
chosen).
o Critical discussion on data migration during the project.
• Cloud computing solutions can be realised using various frameworks and tools. You will work
with cloud service providers or open source tools to configure and implement multiple cloud
solutions based on the design you have created for the given scenario.
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o Solution 1 Configure a cloud computing platform with a cloud service provider’s
framework including the installation of any simple applications on/for the platform.
o Solution 2 Implement a cloud platform using an open source tool and demonstrate how
to use the platform as a simple database server.
• Analysis of the most common problems of a cloud computing platform.
o Possible solutions to these problems.
o Analysis of the most common security issues in the cloud environment.
o Discussion on how to overcome these issues.
