Virtualization and Cloud

Computing Environment
and

Business Application System

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BONITO, Vina Joy BRIONES, Veronica Jane LANDICHO, Karen MENIADO, Eryka Gwyneth VALERO, Aerah Mae
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 INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS & DESIGN

Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Environment
What is
Virtualization?
Virtualization is a process that uses software to
create computer-generated versions of servers,
applications, data centers, and other types of
hardware that behave just like their physical
counterparts.

Virtualization software uses a thin layer of

software, known as a “hypervisor,” which allows
one computer to host multiple virtual machines
(VMs). VMs are software containers that run their
own operating systems and behave like
independent computers–despite running on a
small share of the underlying hardware.
Hypervisor
There are two types of hypervisors:
Type 1 or “bare-metal” hypervisors interact
with the underlying physical resources,
replacing the traditional operating system
altogether. They most commonly appear in
virtual server scenarios.

Type 2 hypervisors run as an application on

an existing OS. Most commonly used on
endpoint devices to run alternative operating
systems, they carry a performance overhead
because they must use the host OS to access
and coordinate the underlying hardware
resources.
Characteristics of
Virtualization
Resource Sharing
01
Virtualization enables users to create separate computing
environments from one host machine–be it a single computer or
a network of connected servers. This allows users to limit the
number of active servers, reduce power consumption, and
manage.

Isolation
02
Virtualization software’s self-contained VMs provide guest users
(a designation that includes not only people but applications,
OSs, and devices) with an isolated online environment. That
separation protects sensitive information while also allowing
guests to stay connected.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF VIRTUALIZATION

Availability
03
Virtualization software offers several features you won’t get with
physical servers that help increase uptime, availability, fault
tolerance, and more–helping users avoid downtime that
undermines user productivity and introduces security threats and
safety hazards.

Aggregation
04
While virtualization allows multiple devices to share resources from a single machine, it can also be
used to combine several devices into one powerful host. Aggregation requires cluster management
software, which connects a homogeneous group of computers or servers together to create a
unified resource center.

Reliability
05
These days, virtualization platforms ensure constant uptime via automated load balancing, which
runs redundant servers on different host machines to prevent outages. That way, hardware failures
are little more than a minor inconvenience. Do note that if downtime is a major concern, you might
need to invest in some backup hardware to act as a fail-safe.
 Types of
Virtualization
01
Server Virtualization
allows users to consolidate and
redistribute resources for more
efficient resource utilization.

02 Data Virtualization
allows users to easily manipulate data
using an abstraction that exists
independent of actual data structure and
database systems.
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03
Software Virtualization
also called application virtualization is the
practice of running software from a remote
server. Software virtualization is similar to that
of virtualization except that it is capable to
abstract the software installation procedure
and create virtual software installation.
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04
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization allows users to run multiple
desktop operating systems from a single computer
and fall into two main categories.

There are two types of desktop virtualization:

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) runs multiple
desktops in VMs on a central server and streams
them to users who log in on thin client devices.

Local desktop virtualization runs a hypervisor on

a local computer, enabling the user to run one or
more additional OSs on that computer and switch
from one OS to another as needed without
changing anything about the primary OS.
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05
Storage virtualization

Storage virtualization combines multiple

network storage resources into a single
storage device that users can access from
various locations. This allows connected
servers, devices, and applications to access
information from a centralized dashboard,
without needing to know where, exactly, that
information is stored. Virtualized storage
also makes it easy to back up your systems
and move data around as needed.
CLOUD COMPUTING
It is a technology that uses remote servers on the internet to store,
manage, and access data online rather than local drives. The data can
be anything such as files, images, documents, audio, video, and more.

There are the following operations that we can

do using cloud computing:
Developing new applications and services
Storage, back up, and recovery of data CHARACTERISTICS OF
Hosting blogs and websites
CLOUD COMPUTING:
Delivery of software on demand
Analysis of data 1. Dedicated internet access.
Streaming videos and audios 2. Measured service.
3. Shared resource pooling
4. On-demand self-serve access.
5. Rapid elasticity.
 CLOUD SERVICE
MODELS 1. Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS)
It is a computing infrastructure managed over the internet. The main advantage of using IaaS is
that it helps users to avoid the cost and complexity of purchasing and managing the physical
servers.

CHARACTERISTICS OF IAAS:
1. Resources are available as a service
2. Services are highly scalable
3. Dynamic and flexible
4. GUI and API-based access
5. Automated administrative tasks
EXAMPLES:
DigitalOcean, Linode, Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute
Engine (GCE), Rackspace, and Cisco
Metacloud.
 CLOUD SERVICE
2. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
MODELS
PaaS cloud computing platform is created for the programmer to develop, test, run, and
manage the applications.

EXAMPLES:
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows
Azure, Heroku, Force.com, Google App
Engine, Apache Stratos, Magento
Commerce Cloud, and OpenShift.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PAAS:
1. Accessible to various users via the same development
application.
2. Integrates with web services and databases.
3. Builds on virtualization technology, so resources can
easily be scaled up or down as per the organization's
need.
4. Support multiple languages and frameworks.
5. Provides an ability to "Auto-scale"
CLOUD SERVICE
MODELS 3. Software as a Service (SaaS)
SaaS is also known as "on-demand software". It is a software in which the
applications are hosted by a cloud service provider. Users can access these
applications with the help of internet connection and web browser.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SAAS:
1. Managed from a central location
2. Hosted on a remote server EXAMPLES:
3. Accessible over the internet BigCommerce, Google Apps, Salesforce,
4. Updates are applied automatically. Dropbox, ZenDesk, Cisco WebEx,
5. The services are purchased on the pay- ZenDesk, Slack, and GoToMeeting.
as-per-use basis
Cloud Responsibility Model
 Important Controls for
Cloud Environment

01 02 03 04
ACCESS ENVIRONMENT PHYSICAL REGULATION
CONTROL SEGREGATION SECURITY

05 06 07 08
PRIVACY LEGAL AVAILABILITY AUDIT
JURISDICTION
 IMPORTANT CONTROLS FOR
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

01 ACCESS CONTROL
Access control is a security technique that regulates who or what can view or use
resources in a computing environment. It is a fundamental concept in security that
minimizes risk to the business or organization.

02 ENVIRONMENT SEGREGATION
One wrong move can adversely affect your production environment, further affecting
live users and their mission-critical data, especially if you deal with sensitive and
private data (ID, client, health, or financial information). You must ensure that
development and testing of any kind take place in completely segregated
environments.
 IMPORTANT CONTROLS FOR
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

03 PHYSICAL SECURITY
Physical security is the protection of personnel, hardware, software, networks and data
from physical actions and events that could cause serious loss or damage to an
enterprise, agency or institution.

04 REGULATION
Cloud computing is not governed by a specific “cloud law,” and no direct regulation
applies to its services. Instead, the legal and regulatory landscape is made up of a
matrix of different rules, as wide as the scope of the technology itself, spanning multiple
industries and geographies.
 IMPORTANT CONTROLS FOR
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

05 PRIVACY
refers to the right to self-determination, that is, the right of individuals to ‘know what is
known about them’, be aware of stored information about them, control how that
information is communicated and prevent its abuse.

06 LEGAL JURISDICTION
an additional protocol establishing guidelines and possible solutions on the
intersection between cloud computing and cybercrime jurisdiction.
 IMPORTANT CONTROLS FOR
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

07 AVAILABILITY
to make your products, services, and tools available to your customers and employees
at anytime from anywhere using any device with an internet connection.

08 AUDIT
is a periodic examination an organization does to assess and document its cloud
vendor’s performance.
 Cloud Security Alliance
(CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining
and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure
cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject
matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations,
governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer
cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events
and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network
benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from
providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and
the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which
diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a
trusted cloud ecosystem.
Virtualization In
Cloud Computing
In the computing or Cloud computing
domain, virtualization refers to the
creation of virtual resources (like a
virtual server, virtual storage device,
virtual network switch or even a virtual
Operating System for that matter) from a
single resource of its type, which appears
as several individual isolated resources or
environments and users can use them as
a separate individual physical resource.

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 Types of Virtualization In
Cloud Computing
01 Operating System
Virtualization
In operating system virtualization in Cloud
Computing, the virtual machine software
installs in the operating system of the host
rather than directly on the hardware system.
The most important use of operating system
virtualization is for testing the application on
different platforms or operating systems.
Here, the software is present in the
hardware, which allows different
applications to run.
02 Server
Virtualization
In server virtualization in Cloud Computing,
the software directly installed on the server
system and used for a single physical server
can divide into many servers on the
demand basis and balance the load.
It can be also stated that the server
virtualization is masking of the server
resources which consists of number and
identity. With the help of software, the server
administrator divides one physical server
into multiple servers.
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03 Hardware
Virtualization
Hardware virtualization in Cloud
Computing, used in server platforms as it is
flexible to use Virtual Machine rather than
physical machines. In hardware
virtualizations, virtual machine software
installs in the hardware system and then it is
known as hardware virtualization.
It consists of a hypervisor which is used to
control and monitor the process, memory,
and other hardware resources. After the
completion of the hardware virtualization
process, the user can install the different
operating system in it and with this platform
different applications can use it.
04 Storage
Virtualization
In storage virtualization in Cloud
Computing, a grouping is done of physical
storage which is from multiple network
storage devices; this is done so it looks like a
single storage device.
It can be implemented with the help of
software applications and storage
virtualization is done for the backup and
recovery process. It is a sharing of the
physical storage from multiple storage
devices.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS & DESIGN

Business Application System

What is a Business
Application System?
A business application is a software solution or
a set of programs that implement
functionalities. They are also utilized to raise
and keep track of productivity across the entire
company. Business apps may be utilized
internally, externally, or in conjunction with other
business apps. It might be developed internally
or purchased as pre-made solutions. A client ’s
specific needs and budget will influence the
type of software they select.
 BUSINESS APPLICATION SYSTEM
Types of Business Apps
B2B Applications
Applications utilized by
business partners (e.g.
resellers, suppliers, etc.).
These can be accessible
using specific lines, such
as the bulk order
submission web service.
Internal
B2C Applications
Applications
Apps that are used for Apps that are utilized in
general purposes, the the business. These
majority of these are essential company
web- and browser- programs include the
based, like dynamic internal ERP system, the
content websites, e- HR system, and others.
commerce
applications, customer
loyalty apps, etc.
 TYPES OF BUSINESS APPS

SUB CATEGORIES
Front-end Background Services-based
Applications Applications Applications

Users directly interact with These back-end apps These apps serve as an
these apps, usually function behind the integration point for
through a Graphic User scenes and manage other apps or systems.
Interface. background processes.
Types of Business Application Software

01
Human Resource
Information System (HRIS)
02 Inventory Control System
HRIS, which manages digital documentation,
can be used to monitor and automate hiring, Inventory management systems, one of the
onboarding, record keeping, training, and standardized corporate solutions, keep track of
stock levels, updates, turnover rates, and
payroll.
automate cycle counts. Automatic reorder
points and point-of-sale (POS) systems can
display real-time quantities on every item when
inventory systems and replenishment solutions
are integrated.
 TYPES OF BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE

03 Communication Software

Microsoft Office and other communication

tools are frequently utilized to improve
information sharing both internally and
internationally.

04 Accounting Software
Financial advisers can evaluate a company's
success using accounting software that tracks
expenses, income, and profits in real time.
Accountants can ensure that books have
accurate data and the company remains
profitable by using up-to-date information.
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06
Reservation Software

Appointment-based enterprises like medical

practices, hairdressers, and restaurants can
combine in-person and online reservations
with a cloud-based reservation system.

05
Service Management Solution

Improve all corporate and consumer

interactions, including sales and
customer service.
 TYPES OF BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE

08
Demand Forecasting Software
Demand forecasting software may sift through
past and present sales and stock data to predict
future client demand when coupled with POS
and inventory systems.

07
Schedule Management System

For management and employees to

communicate and confirm shift swaps and time
off, some providers include a web-based
interface, a mobile app, and an on-site monitor.
Benefits of Business Application Software

01 Quality and Consistency

System software ensures that all operations are performed uniformly, creating
consistent results.

02 Metric Availability
Software uses real-time data from various operations, which can be collected and
generated into reports and analyses to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).

03 Time Savings
software allows employees to focus manual labor on more complicated tasks, reducing
time and human error.
 BENEFITS OF BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE

04 Optimized Operational Efficiency

With reduced time, labor costs, and effort needed to complete standard
procedures, operational efficiency is significantly increased.

05 Minimized Turnaround Times

A software solution maintains consistent results through automation,
streamlining processes, and reducing turnaround times for employees and
consumers.

06 Reduced Labor Costs

Project management software ensures that companies are minimizing the
resources needed to conduct basic processes.
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