Question

VideoDev Ltd is a video and production development company which works for clients across Australia and New Zealand. The company is considering moving some of its computer infrastructure into the Cloud. The VideoDev Board is contemplating this move as a way to increase the company’s flexibility and responsiveness, as well as to achieve some savings on the cost of maintaining their ICT infrastructure.

VideoDev has engaged you as a consultant to advise them on the use of Cloud Computing in their daily operations. They have some 100 video production, engineering and support staff that work on different projects for clients in Australia and New Zealand. They have been advised that a move to using a Cloud based infrastructure would be an advantage to them.

VideoDev have a number of application servers in their Sydney and Melbourne datacentres that provide video processing capabilities for their staff. These servers are quite heavily customised and run reasonably heavy workloads while doing video processing. There is often a considerable queue of jobs waiting to be processed, which causes backlogs in getting jobs completed on time. The Board hopes that a move to a cloud based operation may help to relieve these backlogs.   

Another of VideoDev’s initial projects is to provide all their staff with a Standard Desktop Operating Environment (SDOE) on their desktop. This would include providing a standard desktop to any device that their staff may be using, as well as access to office automation, such as email, word processing, spreadsheet capabilities, as well as online storage for their files. The Board want the SDOE to be available on any device that their staff use, whether they are in the office, at home, or deployed at a customer’s office in the field.

VideoDev is considering the use of either Amazon WorkSpaces (https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/) or Windows Virtual Desktop (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/virtual-desktop/) as a replacement for their existing desktop environment.

1. Explain how you think that VideoDev could move their video processing to the cloud. You will need to discuss:
a. Explain the differences between the service models IaaS and PaaS
b. What type of service model you would recommend?
c. What are the advantages of, and the issues with, the service model that you recommended for VideoDev’s video processing?
d. What other types of architectural patterns could be used in this deployment?
e. How that move would assist in removing backlogs?

Answer 1

Question#1

(A)

Laas:

IaaS solutions are highly flexible and highly scalable, and you can replace it whenever you need without losing money on your initial investment. whereas In PaaS the developers don’t need to start from scratch when creating applications, saving them a lot of time (and money) on writing extensive code.

(B)

I will recommend LaaS as the LaaS have more useful charecteristcs that are been listed below

• Highly flexible and highly scalable.
• Accessible by multiple users.
• Cost-effective.

(C)

Advantages of LaaS:

The IT teams are been involved and they  maintain the hardware and ensure that everything working and up-to-date.

The control of the infrastructure of the LaaS is in your hands.

You do not have to only rely on the IT team as  you can access and oversee IaaS platforms yourself.

(D)

• As the main issue in this service is that the lack of scalability
• There may be legal reasons that preclude the use of off-premise or out-of-counry data storage.

(E)

As the LaaS will help in removing the backlogs as in a way that you are not relying on the IT team so you can have all the access and information on all the servers and on the other infrastructure so you can guide them and can see the progress of the pending works and can more focus on that as it will help you more in removing all the backlogs.

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