Cost Effective Hybrid Cloud Framework for Higher Education

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur (Department of Computer Science), course: Cloud Computing, language: English, abstract: Present Financial crisis in Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) facing lots of problems considerable budget cuts, make difficult to meet the ever growing IT based research and learning needs, institutions are rapidly planning and promoting cloud based approaches for their academic and research needs. A cost effective Hybrid Cloud framework for HEI's will provide educational services for campus or intercampus communication. Hybrid Cloud Framework comprises Private and Public Cloud approaches. This paper will propose the framework based on the Open Source Cloud (OpenNebula for Virtualization, Eucalyptus for Infrastructure and Aneka for programming development environment) combined with CSP's services which are delivered to the end-user via the Internet from public clouds: Google, Microsoft, Zoho, Salesforce etc.