Private cloud implementation and security : using Eucalyptus and Xen Frameworks
Owopetu, Odunayo O. (2013)
Owopetu, Odunayo O.
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201303203491
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201303203491
Tiivistelmä
Private Cloud Implementation and Security
Private cloud is a new improved way to organize and manage IT resources and services within an enterprise. This can be achieved by establishing a private cloud framework behind the corporate firewall of an enterprise. This is done in order to promote better efficiency in determining workload, usage priorities, and security threats in an enterprise as well as secure sensitive company information, which other cloud offerings may not always effectively protect.
The first part of this work is basically theoretical and explains the cloud computing concept as well as relay general information about the cloud architecture, deployment and delivery models of the cloud which was well linked to give a good understanding of the thesis work while the second part is mainly practical. The practical part describes the laboratory implementation of a private cloud.
Linux-Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus was used in this project as the preferred underlying technology upon which a private cloud infrastructure was built. Eucalyptus (management software) is used to create a scalable, secure web service layer that abstracts and stores data. These technologies are critically discussed and their implementation demonstrated in the later parts of this thesis. This thesis also explains step-by-step, the easiest way to deploy a private cloud in an enterprise and as such provides information on how to implement a private cloud and possible ways of effectively securing it.
Private cloud is a new improved way to organize and manage IT resources and services within an enterprise. This can be achieved by establishing a private cloud framework behind the corporate firewall of an enterprise. This is done in order to promote better efficiency in determining workload, usage priorities, and security threats in an enterprise as well as secure sensitive company information, which other cloud offerings may not always effectively protect.
The first part of this work is basically theoretical and explains the cloud computing concept as well as relay general information about the cloud architecture, deployment and delivery models of the cloud which was well linked to give a good understanding of the thesis work while the second part is mainly practical. The practical part describes the laboratory implementation of a private cloud.
Linux-Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus was used in this project as the preferred underlying technology upon which a private cloud infrastructure was built. Eucalyptus (management software) is used to create a scalable, secure web service layer that abstracts and stores data. These technologies are critically discussed and their implementation demonstrated in the later parts of this thesis. This thesis also explains step-by-step, the easiest way to deploy a private cloud in an enterprise and as such provides information on how to implement a private cloud and possible ways of effectively securing it.