Cost Effective Private Cloud framework for University
Keshav Kori, Shraddha Masih, Sanjay Tanwani · 2014
A private cloud solution for university is designed to maximize the utilization of hardware by combining workloads from various applications and services in a managed, secure, and reliable way. Cloud helps the institute to get the maximum computing capacity out of existing institution infrastructure. Private cloud solution is built through DevStack (for Platform as a Service offered by Openstack) and OwnCloud (for Storage as a Service). University private cloud solutions consolidate and optimize existing hardware to help reduce equipment, maintenance, and energy costs while enabling self-service, automation, scalability, and elasticity. A comparison of resource utilization in cloud and cost of infrastructure has been done and the benefits of using private cloud are identified.