Developing and validating virtualized transactional application of educational institutes using InFraMegh

Abstract

Cloud Computing (CC) is considered a constructive technology for read-intensive analytical applications rather than write-intensive transactional applications. Deploying transactional applications in the Cloud is not considered safe due to requirement of stringent ACID guarantees. These rules can be enforced in Cloud using middleware tools like CloudTran and Oracle Coherence. It becomes a major challenge to integrate these tools for a transactional application developer. So, an integrated framework for educational institutes named as ‘InFraMegh’ is developed. It works on top of CloudTran and Oracle Coherence. InFraMegh focuses on Cloud Data Management layer and provides generalized API for managing data in cache and database. InFraMegh speeds up and eases the development efforts of transactional application developer for Cloud. As proof of concept, a transactional application of educational institutes named as Student Registration Return System (SRRS) is used for verifying the functionality of InFraMegh. SRRS is virtualized using XenApp and accessed on client machines. Virtualized SRRS is tested in single-user and multi-user environments. Its performance is found better over traditional client-server architecture. Hence, InFraMegh expedites efforts of developers in developing transaction applications in Cloud. It allows educational institutes to manage data in Cloud.