Cloud Computing Applications

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Cloud Computing Applications

• Shady S. Khalifa
• Teaching Assistant
• Faculty of Computers and Information
• Cairo University

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Agenda

• Cloud Computing in
• Educational Institutes
• E-governance
• Health Sector
• Agriculture

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Cloud Computing in

• Educational Institutes

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Usage Models

• Five different cloud usage models have been
  introduced to the educational institutes
• Cloud-based storage
• Virtual Hands-on Laboratories (VHLs)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Cloud Based Storage

• Cloud-based storage used to facilitate
  collaboration between students by allowing them
  to work together on the same documents.

http//aws.amazon.com/s3/
http//www.dropbox.com/
http//www.clouddip.com/
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Virtual Hands-on Laboratories

• Used to address many of the challenges faced by
  educators struggling with the desire to
• provide their students with realistic learning
  environments.
• protecting production systems from undesirable
  and potentially illegal interference.
• In this usage model, a number of VMs are
  allocated to each students to test of execute a
  certain scenario.
• Ease up the process of creating scenarios as VMs
  can be archived or deployed by simply copying the
  files.
• Ease up the process of exchanging scenarios where
  the configured VMs can be stored on a CD or DVD.
  
• Same concepts are also applied in providing
  testing environments in software companies.

• Examples
• Dalibor Dobrilovic, and Borislav Odadžic.
  "Virtualization Technology as a Tool for Teaching
  Computer Networks." International Journal of
  Social Sciences vol. 1, no. 2 , pp. 138-142. ,
  2007.
• Brian Hay. "Applications of Virtualization to
  Digital Forensics Education." Proceeding of 43rd
  Hawaii International Conference on System
  Sciences. Washington, DC, USA , pp. 1-7, 5-8
  January 2010.
• http//www.vmlogix.com/Product-Documentation/

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Software As A Service (on-demand software)

• Users access applications and its associated data
  directly from the cloud without getting them
  installed on their machine using a thin client
  like web browsers over the Internet.
• Solving many compatibility issues
• Reducing universities IT complexity and cost
• Providing anywhere anytime access.

• Examples
• A number of examples of using SaaS in educational
  institutes based on Google Apps - Education
  Edition(http//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/uni
  versity.html) were introduced showing major
  benefits gained from using this approach as in
  the paper mentioned below.
• Projects (https//projects.zoho.com)
  is another example currently used in Faculty of
  Computers and Information - Cairo University to
  manage some graduation projects.

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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Users are provided with a container environment
  to run/test their software components where all
  of the software required serving the users
  purpose have been already installed and
  configured.
• Microsoft Azure (http//www.microsoft.com/windowsa
  zure/)
• Google App Engine (http//code.google.com/appengin
  e/)
• This service model would benefit computer science
  students and instructors where there would be no
  need to spend time setting up the development
  environment.
• Students in need for access to licensed platform
  (MATLAB, SPSS) that is only available on the
  on-campus computers can also benefit from this
  service model by accessing the platform on the
  cloud from anywhere.

• Examples
• Luis M. Vaquero, "EduCloud PaaS versus IaaS
  Cloud Usage for an Advanced Computer Science
  Course." IEEE Transactions on Education,
  DOI10.1109/TE.2010.2100097, In Press.
• Frank Doelitzscher, Anthony Sulistio, Christoph
  Reich, Hendrik Kuijs, and David Wolf. "Private
  Cloud for Collaboration and e-Learning Services
  from IaaS to SaaS." Computing vol. 91, no. 1 ,
  pp. 23-42. , January 2011.
• Mladen Vouk, et al. "Powered by VCL - Using
  Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) Technology to
  Power Cloud Computing." Proceeding of 2nd
  International Conference on the Virtual Computing
  Initiative. North Carolina, USA , pp. 1-10, 16-17
  May 2008.

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Virtualization is used to provide computational
  resources to users though the user is the one
  responsible for installing and configuring all
  needed software.
• This usage model is the closest to the Grid
  concept.

• Examples
• Amazon EC2 (http//aws.amazon.com/ec2/)
• Purdue University TeraGrid and Wispy Project
  http//www.rcac.purdue.edu/teragrid/resources/cr
• K. Keahey, R. Figueiredo, J. Fortes, T. Freeman,
  and M. Tsugawa. "Science Clouds Early
  Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific
  Applications." Proceeding of Cloud Computing and
  Its Applications. Chicago, IL, USA, 22-23 October
  2008.
• Justin Cappos, Ivan Beschastnikh, Arvind
  Krishnamurthy, and Tom Anderson. "Seattle a
  platform for educational cloud computing."
  Proceeding of 40th ACM technical symposium on
  Computer science education. Chattanooga, TN, USA
  , pp. 111-115, 4-7 March 2009.
• Che-Yuan Tu, Wen-Chieh Kuo, Yao-Tsung Wang, and
  S. Shiau. "E2CC Building energy efficient
  ClassCloud using DRBL." Proceeding of 10th
  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid
  Computing. Banff, AB, Canada , pp. 189 - 195 ,
  13-15 October 2009 .

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Cloud Computing in

• E-governance

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Future Solution for E-governance

• Using cloud computing and service-oriented
  architecture in the public sector should improve
  the conditions for development and deployment of
  e-government solutions.
• Cloud computing permits to uniformly cover the
  whole country with e-government solutions,
  independently of divergence of local
  administrative units.
• Service-oriented architecture facilitates
  provision of compound services covering whole
  customer processes, where a customer may be a
  citizen or an enterprise.

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 UK Government G-Cloud

• Vision Achieving superior levels of consumer
  satisfaction for the Public Sector through the
  provision and assurance of best quality Public
  Sector cloud services characterized by measurable
  benefits and improved value for money.
• Designing highly available and reliable services
• Offering services through catalogues and
  portfolios in an AppStore
• Providing service testing, assurance, and
  deployment enabling flexibility
• Ensuring inter-organizational incident, event,
  problem and change management
• Designing service reporting and performance
  management based on business outcomes
• Provisioning a permanent approach to continual
  service improvement (CSI)
• The Government Applications Store is the portal
  to the G-Cloud providing access to the G-Cloud
  Service Catalogue allowing users to view,
  compare, and request the commissioning of
  services from G-Cloud.

http//www.cloudbook.net/directories/gov-clouds/go
v-program.php?id100018
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Cloud Computing in

• Health Sector

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What does a patient need?

• Its simple the ability to
• record medical history as well as current data,
  including health events, test results, vital
  stats, medications.
• communicate this data to health care providers.

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Cloud in Health Sector

• Cost Cloud programs, platforms and storage
  take the IT strain away from individual
  organizations instead of having everything
  in-house and paying for server capacity and
  programs that you might only use occasionally.
• Scalability Cloud computing can be instantly
  and almost infinitely expandable. Instead of
  whenever you want to use a new program it has to
  be installed or upgraded and tested on multiple
  machines.
• Ubiquity Cloud computing can help by making the
  same application available over a large
  geographic area, without the need for custom
  plumbing to connect all the disparate systems.
• Home monitoring, whereby data from measurement
  devices (e.g., a glucometer) are streamed to a
  providers private cloud with end-to-end
  encryption.
• Collaboration Storing patient data in
  centralized databases for restricted access by
  authorized persons (e.g., for research purposes).
  Storing practice guidelines in public clouds and
  exchange experience.
• Risk Cloud automates the process of providing
  multiple, geographically dispersed backups,
  meaning that even a natural disaster in one area
  is unlikely to take down your IT systems.

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Swine Flu Response Centre

• At the peak of the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, one
  of the big challenges for health authorities in
  affected countries was dealing effectively with
  the massive number of people needing assessment
  and guidance.
• The H1N1 Flu Response Center (http//h1n1.cloudapp
  .net), built and deployed on Windows Azure,
  allows users to take an Emory University-designed
  flu self-assessment, and then offers the
  appropriate advice.
• Users can give explicit consent to share the
  anonymous information they provide during
  self-assessment for public health, education and
  research purposes.
• As a result, apart from the assessment and advice
  given to the individual, the application also
  provided valuable aggregated information for
  assessing the progress of the epidemic.
• Using the Windows Azure platform allowed the
  application
• to be deployed to the cloud very quickly, making
  it available to the public.
• increased demand and usage was handled
  effectively by the scalability features of
  Windows Azure without investing in servers and
  data centers.

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Cloud Computing in

• Agriculture

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Abou Erdaan in the Cloud!

• Crop planning, monitoring, and irrigation
  optimization system.
• Presented by Centrivision Inc. in WATERHAKATHON
  2011 in Egypt.
• Introduce Agriculture As A Service

Using this data was granted by Centrivision Inc.
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Cloud Advantages to Farmers

• No capital investment by farmer
• No Servers
• No Software
• No Maintenance
• No Data backups
• No Infrastructure
• Share his information with farmers planting the
  same crops to exchange expertise.

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In the end

• Cloud computing Reading Group at the Faculty of
  Computers and Information, Cairo University

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Cloud Computing Reading Group

• Every Sunday (1100AM 100PM)
• In seminar room (Labs building, Faculty of
  Computers and Information, Cairo University)
• Join Us
• For more information
• http//tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FCICloudComputi
  ng/
• Eng. Mohamed Handosa- handosa_at_live.com
• Eng. Sara Salim-  sarasalim_at_gmail.com
• Prof. Fatma Omara - f.omara_at_fci-cu.edu.eg
• Eng. Wafaa Habib - wafaamomen_at_yahoo.com
• Eng. Eman hossny - emanhossny_at_yahoo.com
• Eng. Shady Khalifa - sh.khalifa_at_fci-cu.edu.eg

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You