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MOD 005714 Data Centre and Cloud Infrastructures - Anglia Ruskin University

DoDo.com Cloud Design Requirements

Data Centre and Cloud Infrastructures

DoDo's Challenges

Over the past 10 years, the organisation has made several strategic Investments to build Its market share. However, the organisation is now facing a challenge to cope with the fast changing demands of customers about services provided by the organisation. These demands are forcing the organisation to develop and deploy several new applications and make the services available to the customers rapidly. With the current infrastructure, rapid deployment of application is very difficult. The utilization of the compute systems, network, and storage is less than 25 percent of the available capacity. Also, deploying a new application takes a long time because it Involves purchasing new compute systems, Installing software, configuring network and storage, and configuring security.

DoDo's Requirements
The organisation wants to transform their existing data centre to cloud infrastructure to leverage the benefits of cloud. They would like to build the cloud infrastructure by repurposing their existing infrastructure. After deploying new services to the consumers the organisation is expecting cloud burst to occur from time to time. They do not want to invest money on the infrastructure to provision resources to meet the requirements of the occasional increase in the peak workload.

The organisation plans to develop several new applications to offer new services to their customers. The proprietary application provides the organisation competitive advantage and they therefore want to set up an environment for it on their infrastructure. They also require the environment to enable development, testing, and deployment of scalable applications in an agile manner. They also want to set up an environment to deploy the proprietary and off-the-shelf applications.

As the existing infrastructure is heterogeneous nature, the organisation requires the ability to automate the provisioning and configuration tasks based on defined policies. The organisation requires the ability to dynamically, uniformly, and easily modify and manage their Infrastructure. Also, the organisation requires the ability to discover the available underlying resources and provides an aggregated view of the resources.

Design principles, underpinning knowledge and technology concepts will be the prime focus of lecture material and during the practical's students will be apply to put the theory into practice with a range of practical's exercises concentrating on infrastructure and security testing skills. The module will be assessed by a two part case study focusing on both the design and (security) testing of a typical virtual infrastructure & data centre environment deploying application containers.

Assignment Requirements

You are to present a high level formal report of no more than 1500 words appendices can be used if necessary), recommending which approaches/techniques can help DoDo.com meet the challenges and requirements of a move to a cloud based infrastructure. You should suitably justify any recommendations made.

To help with suitable materials
• Use the students notes from Weeks 1-7
• Further research from recommended texts
• Further broader research from reputable sources
Ensure you use supporting diagrams to document any concept you need to get across to the company

This must be your own work and in your own words (please refer to the student handbook and Canvas references on collusion and plagiarism) and follow conventional guidleliens for the production of a formal report. Failure to do so will lose marks.

You are expected to use a good number of authorative references to support your recommendations.

Marking Criteria
Marks will be awarded based on the Anglia generic assessment criteria for a Level 7 module.
However, the following guidelines should assist students in their assignment planning:

Report Marking Criteria
1. Understanding the requirements for the client
2. Depth of understanding displayed on methodologies used for cloud design
3. Relevance of technologies/techniques to challenges/requirements
4. Research into possible solutions & recommendations
5. Report Presentation/Quality (3rd Person)

Bonus Marks Examples
1. Extra Mile References used throughout reports (Harvard Referencing)
2. Supporting schematics and methodology concepts.
3. Professional looking documentation (formal report format)

Attachment:- Datacentre and cloud infrastructure.zip