ASSIGNMENT 1 (1/17/FET/BCC/015)

AMAN GARG
 Ques 2 .Give the history of cloud and explain how it is evolved?
Ans2. The history of cloud computing starts way back in the 1960s, when an
“intergalactic computer network” was first suggested, and in recent years the
technology has served to shake-up both the enterprise IT and supplier landscape.
Over the course of the past decade, cloud computing has evolved from being
something service providers told companies they should be adopting to becoming the
technological lifeblood that runs through most modern enterprises.
 Ques 3. Describe the anatomy of cloud.
Ans3.

• Provisioning and Configuration Module:

It is the lowest level of cloud and typically resides on bare hardware (as a firmware)
or on the top of the hypervisor layer.
• Monitoring and Optimization:
This layer handles the monitoring of all services, storage, networking and
applications components in cloud. • Metering and Chargeback:
This layer provides functions to measure the usage of resources in cloud. The
metering module collects all the utilization data per domain per use.
• Orchestration:
Orchestration is a central to cloud operations. Orchestration converts requests from
the service management layer and the monitoring.Orchestration updates the CMDB
in the process • Configuration Management Database (CMDB):
It is a central configuration repository wherein all the meta data and configuration of
different modules, resources are kept and updated in the real-time basis.
• Cloud Life cycle Management Layer (CLM):
 This layer handles the coordination of all other layers in cloud. All requests internal
and external are addressed to the CLM layer first.

• Service Catalog:
It is central to the definition of cloud, SC defines what kind of services the cloud is
capable of providing and at what cost to the end user.
Ques 4. What are the benefits of clouds?
Ans4.
Efficiency / cost reduction
By using cloud infrastructure, you don’t have to spend huge amounts of money on
purchasing and maintaing equipment.

Data security
One of the major concerns of every business, regardless of size and industry, is the
security of its data.

Scalability
Different companies have different IT needs — a large enterprise of 1000+
employees won’t have the same IT requirements as a start-up. This scalability
minimizes the risks associated with in-house operational issues and maintenance.

Mobility
Cloud computing allows mobile access to corporate data via smartphones and
devices, which is a great way to ensure that no one is ever left out of the loop.

Disaster recovery
Data loss is a major concern for all organizations, along with data security. Storing
your data in the cloud guarantees that data is always available, even if your
equipment like laptops or PCs, is damaged.

Control
Having control over sensitive data is vital to any company. You never know what can
happen if a document gets into the wrong hands, even if it’s just the hands of an
untrained employee.

Competitive edge
Not every company will migrate to the cloud, at least not yet. However, organizations
which adopt cloud find that many benefits that cloud offers positively impacts their
business . Ques5. Identify cloud delivery models.
Ans5.
This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models,
and four deployment models.

Software as a Service (SaaS). ...

Platform as a Service (PaaS). ...
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Ques 6. What is Virtual machine Monitor, explain with example.

Ans6. A Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a software program that enables the
creation, management and governance of virtual machines (VM) and manages the
operation of a virtualized environment on top of a physical host machine.

Examples of OS-hosted VMMs are VMware Workstation, VMware Server, Parallels

Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac. The hypervisor monitor provides the most
control, flexibility and performance, because it is not subject to limitations of a host
OS.