Abstract
<span>Cloud Computing is an environment where computing resources, such as processing power, storage, network, application, and other IT services, are provided to users as computing utility. This paper presents the university distributed databases consolidation and relocation to the cloud for the provision of Database as a Service (DBaaS), through their deployment into high availability, interactive, secure private cloud setup utilizing Al-Balqa Applied University (BAU) Private Cloud (BPC). This solution involves several transitions, and represents the main key step in BAU journey to the cloud to allow the university to achieve greater efficiency in terms of database services, and to improve performance, availability, interactivity, and security. The resulted service also reduces operating, management and capital costs.</span>
Highlights
Cloud computing is defined as the provision of computing hardware and software resources as a service rather than a product, whereby resources are provided to users as a metered service over the Internet [1, 2]
This paper presents BAU database consolidation and migration to private-could, which is foreseen as a model for multi-campus universities
Moving to BPC is a leapfrog shift from using individual database services to building a centralized private cloud for the provision of interactive database as a service (DBaaS) utilizing BPC
Summary
Cloud computing is defined as the provision of computing hardware and software resources as a service rather than a product, whereby resources are provided to users as a metered service over the Internet [1, 2]. The first one is defined above and it has a number of advantages, including lower capital expenditures, employees work anywhere and focus on business not technology, no applications upgrades concerns, instant implementations, lower upfront and operation and maintenance costs, predictable spending, guaranteed service-level agreements, pay only for the required services, and provide guaranteed availability and scalability. In this solution, computing services are usually provided as a service by a Cloud Service Provider (CSP), which makes security and privacy are big concerns.
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