Unit-2

Introduction to
cloud
computing
 Contents
•Cloud Computing in a Nutshell
•Roots of Cloud Computing
•Layers and Types of Clouds
•Desired Features of a Cloud
•Cloud Infrastructure Management
•Examining the Characteristics of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is more than a service
sitting in some remote data centre. It’s a
set of approaches that can help
organizations quickly, effectively add
and subtract resources in almost real
time.
 Cloud computing in nutshell
✘ Technologies such as cluster, grid, and now, cloud computing,
have all aimed at allowing access to large amounts of
computing power in a fully virtualized manner.
✘ Consumers pay providers based on usage (“pay-as-you-go”),
similar to the way in which we currently obtain services from
traditional public utility services such as water, electricity, gas,
and telephony.
✘ Cloud computing has been coined as an umbrella term to
describe a category of sophisticated on-demand computing
services initially offered by commercial providers, such as
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
✘ It denotes a model on which a computing infrastructure is
viewed as a “cloud,” from which businesses and individuals
access applications from anywhere in the world on demand
✘ The main principle behind this model is offering computing,
storage, and software “as a service.”
Cloud computing is the result of many years of
evolution dating back to the first computers. It is
the natural progression from the centralized
mainframe era, to the distributed client-server era
enabled by the birth of personal computers, to the
Internet era where the enterprise was able to
connect to the rest of the world through a network
of computers that spanned the globe.
Computing Paradigms
Computing Paradigms- Other way around
In October 2010, a photo-sharing application called Instagram
was launched, and 25,000 people registered on that first day.
Three months later, Instagram had 1 million users, and shortly
after hit 10 million. At that time, the company only offered an
iOS version of its mobile application, so it was only capturing
iPhone users.

Would it have been possible that a normal

traditional server would have supported that kind
of traffic?
 ROOTS OF CLOUD COMPUTING
✘ We can track the roots of clouds computing by
observing the advancement of several technologies,
especially in hardware (virtualization, multi-core
chips), Internet technologies (Web services, service-
oriented architectures, Web 2.0), distributed
computing (clusters, grids), and systems management
(autonomic computing, data center automation).
 Hardware Virtualisation
✘ Hardware virtualization allows running multiple operating systems and
software stacks on a single physical platform

• 3 basic capabilities related to management of workload: isolation,

Consolidation (many units to one) and Migration
 Distributed Computing
✘Distributed computing is a field of computer science that
studies distributed systems.
✘A distributed system is a software system in which
components located on networked computers communicate and
coordinate their actions by passing messages.
✘The components interact with each other in order to achieve a
common goal.
 Characteristics of Distributed Computing
✘All components are autonomous
✘Scaling can be done at any time by adding additional resources.
✘Availability can be maintained with the help of commodity
hardware and network.
✘Scheduling, resource management and security policies are
implemented by each system.
✘There are multiple points of control and multiple points of
failure.
 Distributed Computing based Paradigms
✘Cluster Computing
✘Grid Computing
✘Cloud Computing
 Cluster Computing
Cluster is a type of parallel or distributed processing system, which
consists of a collection of interconnected standalone computers
working together as a single integrated computing resources.
 GRID(Global Resource Information Database)
Computing
✘ Grid computing is the collection of computer
resources from multiple locations to reach a common
goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed
system with non-interactive workloads that involve a
large number of files.

✘ A distributed architecture of large number of

computer connected to solve a complex problem.
✘ Computer connections indicate a virtual organization
for common goals.
✘ GRID computing model servers or physical
computers run in a loosely linked by the internet or
low speed networks.
✘ Computer may connect directly or via scheduling
systems.
 ✘ Coordinate resource sharing and
problem solving in a dynamic multi-
Heterogeneous
Resource institutional virtual organization.
✘ support the creation and used of
computation and data enriched
environment.
✘ use of open standards and
architecture

Virtual Organization
 ROOTS OF CLOUD COMPUTING
✘ This model brings benefits to both consumers and providers
of IT services.
✘ Consumers can attain reduction on IT-related costs by
choosing to obtain cheaper services from external providers
as opposed to heavily investing on IT infrastructure and
personnel hiring.
✘ The “on-demand” component of this model allows consumers
to adapt their IT usage to rapidly increasing or
unpredictable computing needs.
✘ Web services can glue together applications running on
different messaging product platforms, enabling information
from one application to be made available to others, and
enabling internal applications to be made available over the
Internet.
✘ The purpose of a SOA is to address requirements of loosely
coupled, standards-based, and protocol-independent
distributed computing.
✘ In a SOA, software resources are packaged as “services,”
which are well-defined, self-contained modules that provide
standard business functionality and are independent of the
state or context of other services.
✘ Services are described in a standard definition language and
have a published interface.
✘ Programmable Web is a public repository of service APIs and
mashups currently listing thousands of APIs and mashups.
✘ In the consumer Web, information and services may be
programmatically aggregated, acting as building blocks of
complex compositions, called service mashups. Many service
providers, such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google, make
their service APIs publicly accessible using standard
protocols such as SOAP and REST
✘ (Simple Object Access Protocol) SOAP is a protocol, it
follows a strict standard to allow communication between the
client and the server and REST (Representational State
Transfer) is an architectural style that doesn’t follow any
strict standard.
✘ A key aspect of the grid computing services in roots to cloud
has been building standard Web services-based protocols that
allow distributed resources to be “discovered, accessed,
allocated, monitored, accounted for, and billed for, etc., and
in general managed as a single virtual system.
✘ The idea of virtualizing a computer system’s resources,
including processors, memory, and I/O devices, has been well
established for decades, aiming at improving sharing and
utilization of computer systems.
✘ The advent of several innovative technologies—multi-core
chips, para virtualization, hardware-assisted virtualization, and
live migration of VMs—has contributed to an increasing
adoption of virtualization on server systems
 Cloud is a parallel and
distributed computing system consisting of a collection of
inter-connected
and virtualised computers that are dynamically provisioned
and presented as one
or more unified computing resources based on service-level
agreements (SLA)
established through negotiation between the service provider
and consumers.

-Rajkumar buyya
 Cloud Computing
✘A model, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources
✘Internet-based computing, where shared resources, data and
information are provided to computers and other devices on-
demand.
✘Also known as 'on-demand computing'
Service models of cloud
✘ Cloud computing services are divided into three classes,
according to the abstraction level of the capability provided
and the service model of providers, namely:
(1) Infrastructure as a Service
(2) Platform as a Service
(3) Software as a Service
Types of cloud
✘ These abstraction levels can also be viewed as a layered
architecture where services of a higher layer can be composed
from services of the underlying layer.
✘ Cloud development environments are built on top of
infrastructure services to offer application development and
deployment capabilities; in this level, various programming
models, libraries, APIs, and mashup editors enable the
creation of a range of business, Web, and scientific
applications.
 Infrastructure-as-a-service
✘ Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the delivery of computer
hardware (servers, networking technology, storage, and data
center space) as a service. It may also include the delivery of
operating systems and virtualization technology to manage the
resources.
✘ Dynamic scaling as applied to infrastructure means that the
infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down, based
on the requirements of the application.
 Platform-as-a-service
✘ With Platform as a Service (PaaS), the provider delivers more
than infrastructure. It delivers what you might call a solution
stack — an integrated set of software that provides everything
a developer needs to build an application — for both software
development and runtime.
✘ PaaS can be viewed as an evolution of Web hosting. In recent
years, Webhosting companies have provided fairly complete
software stacks for developing Websites.
 Software-as-a-service
✘ One of the first implementations of cloud services was
Software as a Service (SaaS) — business applications that are
hosted by the provider and delivered as a service.
✘ At the top of the stack is SaaS. SaaS is a complete application
delivered as a service to the service consumer. The service
consumer has only to configure some application-specific
parameters and manage users.
 Features of cloud
✘ Certain features of a cloud are essential to enable services that
truly represent the cloud computing model and satisfy
expectations of consumers, and cloud offerings must be
(i) self-service
(ii) per-usage metered and billed
(iii) elastic
(iv) customizable.
Cloud Service Models
Cloudy way
Major Service Providers
 CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
MANAGEMENT
✘ A key challenge IaaS providers face when building a cloud
infrastructure is managing physical and virtual resources,
namely servers, storage, and networks
✘ The orchestration of resources must be performed in a way to
rapidly and dynamically provision resources to applications
✘ The software toolkit responsible for this orchestration is called
a virtual infrastructure manager.
 Features of infrastructure manager
✘ Virtualization Support-The multi-tenancy aspect of clouds
requires multiple customers with disparate requirements to be
served by a single hardware infrastructure. Virtualized
resources (CPUs, memory, etc.) can be sized and resized with
certain flexibility.
✘ Self-Service, On-Demand Resource Provisioning-Self-
service access to resources has been perceived as one the most
attractive features of clouds.
✘ Multiple Backend Hypervisors- Different virtualization
models and tools offer different benefits, drawbacks, and
limitations. Thus, some virtual infrsatructure managers provide
a uniform management layer.
✘ Storage Virtualization- Virtualizing storage means abstracting
logical storage from physical storage. By consolidating all
available storage devices in a data center
✘ Dynamic Resource Allocation- Increased awareness of
energy consumption in data centers has encouraged the
practice of dynamic consolidating VMs in a fewer number of
servers.
✘ High Availability and Data Recovery- The high availability
(HA) feature of VI managers aims at minimizing application
downtime and preventing business disruption.
 Characteristics of cloud
✘ On-demand self-services:
The Cloud computing services does not require any human
administrators, user themselves are able to provision, monitor
and manage computing resources as needed.
✘ Broad network access:
The Computing services are generally provided over standard
networks and heterogeneous devices.
✘ Rapid elasticity:
The Computing services should have IT resources that are able to
scale out and in quickly and on as needed basis. Whenever the user
require services it is provided to him and it is scale out as soon as its
requirement gets over.
✘ Resource pooling:
The IT resource (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) present are shared across multiple applications and occupant
in an uncommitted manner.(Customized)
✘ Measured service:
The resource utilization is tracked for each application and
occupant, it will provide both the user and the resource provider
with an account of what has been used. This is done for various
reasons like monitoring billing and effective use of resource.
(Server Use)
Cloud Deployment Models