Cloud Computing for Universities Graduation Project
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The document discusses a university project that aims to implement cloud computing services within the university. Specifically, the project will virtualize the university's datacenter using VMware and OpenStack solutions. This will provide virtual servers, desktops, and applications to researchers, students, and staff to facilitate research and education. The cloud services will reduce costs and complexity while improving flexibility, mobility, and sustainability. The project team has already transformed their faculty's datacenter and is providing virtual resources to researchers and graduation projects. They organized the first cloud computing conference in Egypt to promote research clouds.
Cloud Computing for Universities Graduation Project
- 2. Project Abstract INTRODUCTION Cloud computing is a relatively recent concept that has arisen out of developments in grid computing, virtualization and web technologies. The term covers an entire stack from infrastructure through storage, platforms, and applications. Of these, Software-as-a-Service has so far been the most successful in universities through outsourcing of email and collaborative functionality. However, it is cloud infrastructure and storage Why Cloud Computing for that are most relevant to this project. Clouds are characterized by on- Universities? demand deployment of virtual, flexible, highly scalable resources with a 1) Research and educational needs of pay per use charging model. We’ll offer these services for Academic and universities change with developing Research sake for the students taking the advantage of cloud computing technology. As a natural result of this and providing them with access to the equipment they need in their progress: research or IT projects such as virtual servers, desktops and applications - New software cause new hardware they want to use anywhere and anytime they want to use it. costs. Using Cloud Computing in business has achieved a big success in saving - Issues such as setup, configure, and transport the new software tools cost, complexity and time in the IT world, however we are thinking of would cause to loss of the cloud computing from a different perspective. We use Cloud Computing researchers’ workforce, and for the academic study and research purposes, expanding the cloud researchers do not focus their basic tasks. market share to reach everyone researching, studying and working in IT field. The large majority of university In Egypt we have more than 30 Universities, Cloud Computing for budgets are devoted to meet these needs. Universities will help facilitate the education and research process and will give the chance for researchers and students to innovate and enrich our IT development in Egypt. 2) The high expenses for students to purchase the hardware equipment Our Project aims to adding new innovative features to the university needed to implement their IT projects website/Cloud portal which gives the professors, researchers and that deprive them and the University students the ability to order the servers, desktops and applications they from: need in their projects, and use it in just a few minutes. - Having a real supportive environment PROJECT IDEA/CONCEPT for supporting and stimulating R&D system in the university. We are completing the graduation project of students of the last year - The integration of the theoretical and that was mainly about implementation of the university datacenter experimental education in IT field. including servers and network components. This year we want to develop the University data-center using the cloud computing/virtualization A problem that will continue to show- technology and show innovative use cases for this technology in up every year and still have no Academic and Research purposes for all University researchers, students solution and stand against achieving and staff. a great success.
- 3. Overview of system modules: In our project we will give different solutions to universities to stimulate Innovation and Green IT concepts using the Cloud Computing Technology and we will propose a cloud infrastructure prototype for them with different solutions to fit the existing infrastructure of the university through the possible cloud and virtualization solutions using: 1- Hardware module: Design and Implement a powerful Data-center of a very strong physical networking infrastructure with high levels of security to ensure a safe connection to user’s Project Features: private or public cloud to reach the service/application he wants. Our project offers new features, services and applications for the University data-centers as: 2- Software module: to implement the cloud infrastructure of the university we will use three different software solutions 1- We offered the virtual servers with variant specifications to facilitate of virtualization: the practical implementation of the large Graduation Projects that 1. VMware vCloud Solution (vSphere 5 & require powerful servers. Also for research programs and university IT vCloud Director). administrators (including web, database, mail, DC servers, etc…). 2. OpenStack Cloud Solution. 2- We offered the virtual/Thin applications to facilitate the academic 3- User Access module: Design and study in labs aiding students to work with the programs that need develop a University Cloud portal or add high processing requirements over the university private cloud the academic Cloud services to the environment. vCloud Director portal through which students or researchers can interact with 3- We offered Virtual Desktops for researchers, professors and university the university cloud services and employees. applications and log securely to their academic information. 4- In addition, the cloud computing reduces universities’ IT complexity, cost and some benefits of Cloud Computing can be listed: · Reduced implementation and maintenance costs. · Increased mobility for a global workforce, Flexible and scalable infrastructures · “Greening” of the data center.
- 4. The Inevitable Cloud Team Thinking of our graduation project, we all agreed that we have to work on a new Mohamed Moheb El-Shorbagy promising technology related to our field and Mohamedelshorbagy73@gmail.com then ‘’Cloud Computing’’ technology came to Cell Phone: +201016693561 the scene. We did our research and discussions, and designed a prototype of Mohamed Mohamed Zein El-Dein what we are going to do. We were totally mmzzain@gmail.com convinced by the benefits of this technology Cell Phone: +201114477470 that has shown a constructive revolution in Ahmed Mohamed Abo kamla networking. Ahmed.abokamla@gmail.com Honestly, we started thinking of Cloud Cell Phone: +201002838833 Computing as it is used right now in the business world but we were facing the Abdelrahim Ahmed Abo-Douh problem of having no fund to purchase the abdelrahim.ahmed@yahoo.com Cell Phone: +201118013213 required servers and storage devices to implement our design, so it seemed useless Amgad Salah Boshra Amin to just go the theoretical way without real Eng.amgad2@gmail.com results or implementation of the idea which Cell Phone: +201285881925 wasn’t accepted from all of us and it was then considered a disappointing ending. Ahmed Hassan Abdel-Haddy ahmed_hasan316 @yahoo.com By the time, we realized that it was not just Cell Phone: +201281382649 our problem and we have to find a solution to this problem facing all students working in Ahmed Shawky Anour hewedy the information technology field. Then a ahmedshawky.fee@gmail.com simple reverse thinking was the answer to Cell Phone: +201017034884 our problem, why don’t the university offer the products used in Business Cloud Emad Abdo Gaber Ahmed Computing to its students? Giving them all eng.emadabdo2012@gmail.com Cell Phone: +201095263701 the advantages of Cloud Computing but for the Academic sake that will help in the Sadek Abdel-Naser Sadek integration of the theoretical and Sadekabdelnaser@gmail.com experimental education and support the R&D Cell Phone: +201007467821 systems in the university. Haroun Ahmed Bakr And here comes the new idea for our eng_haroun2012@yahoo.com project to give different solutions to Cell Phone: +201001225129 universities to stimulate Innovation and Green IT concepts in the use of Cloud Computing Technology.
- 5. “ I’m really honored to be the supervisor for such a great project and to work with those young promising engineers who has introduced to me this new era of Cloud Computing, It was my first time to work with such brilliant team and see that shine in their eyes and see how they work smoothly like in a harmony to achieve what they want“. Prof. Dr. Nawal El-Fishawy Project Supervisor and Head of Computer Engineering Deptartment at Faculty of Electronic Engineering. “ I’m very happy to be in such event that What we achieved? is to be held for the first time in Egypt, Thanks to our open-minded Head of the IT Department in our Faculty, We have now specially to be in a governmental reached a very promising point in our project implementation after having the access to university and we are honored to be part use our Faculty’s local network and Servers to implement and apply our solution of it here with you” practically in our Faculty Mostafa Hashem At this moment, We have transformed our Faculty's small classical datacenter into a Unified Storage Technical Support Supervisor at EMC 2 virtualized environment using VMware Solution and offered: 1- Virtual servers for researchers and IT graduation projects. There are two graduation projects now that are working on our virtual servers and used in Mail and Database “ The exist of those young promising applications. engineers like “The Inevitable Cloud Team” who are looking forward to 2- Virtual servers for using it as web, share point, DC, DNS and DHCP servers for the learning and applying new technologies is faculty datacenter itself. just the start for Egypt to regain its 3- Virtual desktops including win7, XP for professors/employees and for our Faculty's position in IT field specially during these academic labs. hard time for Egypt” Sherine Bahader 4- Thin applications such as Matlab and Netbeans for using inside the academic labs and Head of Open Source Software Department at iTi for research purposes. The Inevitable Cloud Conference “The Inevitable Cloud” Conference is the 1st Conference for Research Clouds in Egypt that was organized by The Inevitable Cloud Team at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University – Menouf on 15-16 May 2012. The Conference was the premier Cloud Computing event, covering latest trends and innovation in the world of Cloud Computing, providing global directions and best practices around the future of Cloud Computing with emphasis on Research Clouds’ rule in the development of the Information Technology in Egypt. The conference achieved a big success and was sponsored by a collection of 2 multinationals, nationals and research institutes including: EMC , Microsoft , Information Technology Institute iTi, Egyptian cloud computing center EC3, Wyse, TE Data, Raya and cloud11.