Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City

Summary Report

On

Cloud Computing

Submitted by:
Aljohn Y. Loria
CS 423 Student

Submitted to:
Born Christian A. Isip
Instructor, CS 423 Seminars and Fieldtrips

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
I.

INTRODUCTION

Today, the 14th largest software company by market capitalization

(Salesforce.com) operates almost entirely in the cloud, the top five software
companies by sales revenue all have major cloud offerings, and the market as a
whole is predicted to grow to $160B by 2011 (source: Merrill Lynch). Yet, despite
the trumpeted business and technical advantages of cloud computing, many
potential cloud users have yet to join the cloud, and those major corporations that
are cloud users are for the most part putting only their less sensitive data in the
cloud. Lack of control in the cloud is the major worry. One aspect of control is
transparency in the cloud implementation - somewhat contrary to the original
promise of cloud computing in which the cloud implementation is not relevant.
Transparency is needed for regulatory reasons and to ease concern over the
potential for data breaches. Because of todays perceived lack of control, larger
companies are testing the waters with smaller projects and less sensitive data. In
short, the potential of the cloud is not being realized.
When thinking about solutions to cloud computings adoption problem, it is
important to realize that many of the issues are essentially old problems in a new
setting, although they may be more acute. For example, corporate partnerships
and offshore outsourcing involve similar trust and regulatory issues. Similarly, open
source software enables IT departments to quickly build and deploy applications,
but at the cost of control and governance. Finally, virtual machine attacks and Web
service vulnerabilities existed long before cloud computing became fashionable.
Indeed, this very overlap is reason for optimism; many of these cloud problems
have long been studied and the foundations for solutions exist.
In our vision, integrity of the cloud infrastructure is ensured through the use of
Trusted Computing. In addition, we advocate the seamless extension of control
from the enterprise into the cloud through the powerful combination of highassurance remote server integrity, and cryptographic protocols supporting
computation on cipher text. With our approach, content is protected in a manner
consistent with policies, whether in the enterprise or the cloud. Yet, because the
protection mechanisms support computation, it is possible for all cloud participants
to mutually benefit from the cloud data in a controlled manner. Hence, there is
business intelligence advantages derived from operating in the cloud that simply
dont exist otherwise. We believe that the ability to get smarter through use of the
cloud is the key differentiator that will sufficiently alleviate privacy fears to ensure
widespread adoption.

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
II.

SUB-TOPICS

Amazon
I thought they sold books? Now they are the premier cloud computing infrastructure
with Amazon EC2.

Cloud Security.
Is cloud computing safe? This could arguably be #2 (#1 if we werent counting
Cloud Computing itself) as security seems to be one of the only cons on the list of
reasons to migrate to the cloud. If it werent for the security issue, there is very little reason
not to adopt a cloud compute platform. However, with this being such a big topic in the
virtualization arena, you can imagine that all the cloud giants (Amazon, Microsoft, IBM,
etc.) are plugging in all the holes that critics are trying to poke in the cloud.
The City of L.A. Signs $7.25million Contract.
About 30,000 employees of the Los Angeles government are now using Googles
cloud email and office application software. This was done despite Topic #4 and was seen
as a huge step forward in the cloud movement.

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
III.

SUMMARY GENERALIZATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS: TOWARD THE

PURSUIT OF BEST PRACTICES

1. Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing

Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud
computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for
compute, analytics, storage and networking. Users can pick and choose from
these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing
applications, in the public cloud.

REFERENCES
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/cloud-computing
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Windows-Azure
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/A-history-of-cloud-computing

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City

Requirement No. 2

On

Electronic Voting

Submitted by:
Aljohn Y. Loria
CS 423 Student

Submitted to:
Born Christian A. Isip
Instructor, CS 423 Seminars and Fieldtrips

Republic of the Philippines

SURIGAODEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
I.

HISTORY

Cloud computing has evolved through a number of phases which include grid
and utility computing, application service provision (ASP), and Software as a
Service (SaaS). But the overarching concept of delivering computing resources
through a global network is rooted in the sixties. The idea of an "intergalactic
computer network" was introduced in the sixties by J.C.R. Licklider, who was
responsible for enabling the development of ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) in 1969. His vision was for everyone on the globe to be
interconnected and accessing programs and data at any site, from anywhere,
explained Margaret Lewis, product marketing director at AMD. "It is a vision that
sounds a lot like what we are calling cloud computing." Other experts attribute the
cloud concept to computer scientist John McCarthy who proposed the idea of
computation being delivered as a public utility, similar to the service bureaus which
date back to the sixties. Since the sixties, cloud computing has developed along a
number of lines, with Web 2.0 being the most recent evolution. However, since the
internet only started to offer significant bandwidth in the nineties, cloud computing
for the masses has been something of a late developer. One of the first milestones
in cloud computing history was the arrival of Salesforce.com in 1999, which
pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple website.
The services firm paved the way for both specialist and mainstream software firms
to deliver applications over the internet.
II.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Cloud computing means that instead of all the computer hardware and software
you're using sitting on your desktop, or somewhere inside your company's network,
it's provided for you as a service by another company and accessed over the
Internet, usually in a completely seamless way. Exactly where the hardware and
software is located and how it all works doesn't matter to you, the userit's just
somewhere up in the nebulous "cloud" that the Internet represents.
Cloud computing is a buzzword that means different things to different people. For
some, it's just another way of describing IT (information technology) "outsourcing";
others use it to mean any computing service provided over the Internet or a similar
network; and some define it as any bought-in computer service you use that sits
outside your firewall. However we define cloud computing, there's no doubt it

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Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
makes most sense when we stop talking about abstract definitions and look at
some simple, real examplesso let's do just that.

III.

IV.

HOW IT WORKS ( with illustration)

Clients are the device that the end user interacts with cloud. three types of
clients:
1.) Mobile
2.) Thick
3.) Thin (Most Popular)
Distributed servers - Often servers are in geographically different places, but
server acts as if they are working next to each other.
Datacenter - It is collection of servers where application is placed and is accessed
via internet.

SPECIFIC APPLICATION

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)

When it comes to IaaS, using an existing infrastructure on a pay-per-use scheme
seems to be an obvious choice for companies saving on the cost of investing to
acquire, manage and maintain an IT infrastructure. There are also instances where

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Main Campus, Rosario, Tandag City
organizations turn to PaaS for the same reasons while also seeking to increase the
speed of development on a ready-to-use platform to deploy applications.

V.

RELEVANCE TO INDUSTRY NEEDS

In business relations, Cloud computing offers your business many benefits.

It allows you to set up what is essentially a virtual office to give you the flexibility of
connecting to your business anywhere, any time. With the growing number of webenabled devices used in today's business environment (e.g. smartphones, tablets),
access to your data is even easier. There are many benefits to moving your
business to the cloud. For instance, your business can scale up or scale down your
operation and storage needs quickly to suit your situation, allowing flexibility as
your needs change. Rather than purchasing and installing expensive upgrades
yourself, your cloud computer service provider can handle this for you. Using the
cloud frees up your time so you can get on with running your business.