Comparative Study on Open Source Software for Cloud Computing Platform: Eucalyptus, Openstack and Opennebula

Cloud computing has caused a revolution in how companies do business giving them flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency like never before. It lets organizations use computing resources through the internet instead of relying on the usual in-house setup making cloud computing a key part of today's IT plans. From new startups to big global companies, businesses are using cloud solutions more and more to boost their ability to adapt cut down on running costs, and come up with new ideas. The cloud ecosystem is big and varied, with different deployment models and service types to suit various business needs. Public, private, and hybrid clouds are the three main deployment models each with its own pros and cons. public clouds, like those from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, offer affordable scalability and global reach. Private clouds, on the other hand, are for organizations that have strict security or compliance needs giving them dedicated environments. Hybrid clouds mix the best parts of both letting businesses find a balance between security and scalability by combining private and public cloud resources

The century we are living in is the age of technology and innovations. Without getting compatible with such techniques, a business finds itself hard to survive, so to remain competitive in the industry and reap unique benefits, one must not hesitate to use modern technology in processing of its business operations. As a business understands the language of accounting, making it mandatory for every company to have a comprehensive understanding of its technical aspects to reap the benefits of today’s market. Accounting is an information system as s part of the significant management information system provides the organisation with information on various aspects. Cloud Accounting allows accounting managers to access financial information from anyplace in the world round the clock leading to no geographical and infrastructural boundaries. This paper focuses on comprehending the term cloud computing, current scenario and prospect in cloud computing, and will likewise make comparative analyses between conventional accounting and cloud accounting. Keywords: Cloud computing, Accounting, Software as a service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, On-Premises, Hosted solutions. Cite this Article Ashwani Kumar, Himanshu Kushwaha. A Study of Cloud Computing with Special Reference to Cloud-Based Accounting. E - Commerce for Future & Trends . 2018; 5(3): 15–24p.

In cloud computing, private cloud tends to exhibit high controllability but lack scalability, whereas public cloud is just the opposite. The hybrid cloud formed by combining them can effectively balance controllability and scalability, and has been widely adopted in industry for executing workflows. The network connecting public and private clouds goes through Internet and its bandwidth is rather limited in comparison with that inside clouds. Hence, cross-cloud data transmission can become a bottleneck of executing workflows in such environment. Moreover, multiple data communications may contend for bandwidth resources, thereby incurring delay. To address these concerns, this work establishes a scheduling model for workflow execution across public and private clouds, where a queueing mode is innovatively employed to address potential network communication contention. A contention-cognizant list scheduling (CCLS) heuristic equipped with task duplication is devised to minimize workflow makespan. It adopts a novel task sorting attribute to schedule tasks and cross-cloud data communications by using available computation and communication resources, and employs task duplication to obviate the needs for certain data communications. Experiments are conducted with realistic workflows and diverse settings, and the results verify the superiority of CCLS over the existing ones as it can always achieve the best makespan <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Note to Practitioners</i> —A crucial challenge for workflow scheduling across public and private clouds is that the cross-cloud bandwidth resource is relatively limited and multiple data communications may contend for it in practice. However, this communication contention issue has largely been neglected in existing investigations. To advance the state of the art, this paper proposes a communication contention-cognizant scheduling approach based on a queueing mode to minimize the makespan for workflow execution across public and private clouds. The proposed approach can be readily put into use and experimental results show that it performs better than traditional scheduling approaches that fail to consider communication contention.

The development of cloud computing technology has been continuously growing since its invention and has attracted the attention of many researchers in the academia and the industry, particularly during the recent years. The majority of organizations, whether large corporate businesses or typical small companies, are moving towards employing this cutting edge technology. Using private cloud provides low cost and privacy for workflow applications execution. However, an organization’s requirements to high performance resources and high capacity storage devices lead them to utilize public clouds. Public cloud leases information technology services in the form of small units and in larger scale compared to private cloud, but this model is potentially exposed to the risk of data breach and is less secure in comparison to a pure private cloud environment. The combination of public and private clouds is known as hybrid cloud, where workflow tasks can be executed on resources residing on either public or private clouds. The objective of this paper is to present a scheduling algorithm for maintaining data privacy in workflow applications, such that the budget is minimized, while the makespan limitation imposed by the user is satisfied.

Deadline-constrained cost-aware workflow scheduling in hybrid cloud

Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies in last decade; this technology provides a service model to organizations and public users. Organization users and developers, they start and maintain their organization without any hardware and software infrastructure they can develop their company with the help of cloud technology. Cloud deployment is categorized into three types, private, public and hybrid cloud environment and here public and private cloud more secure comparatively hybrid cloud because when data is moving from private to public cloud security problem is occur. Data communication is most important task in a network environment so the proposed model is focus on data security in hybrid cloud environment. In a hybrid cloud the participation of private cloud and its nodes very important after that the data transmission is depends on active node, In this node selection is based on genetic algorithm. The result of proposed model is going to compare with private and public cloud security parameters.

Recently hybrid cloud solutions integrating public and private cloud is proposed to address the privacy and security concerns faced by Enterprises in their data offloading decisions. In these solutions, the transformed data is kept in public cloud while transformation keys are kept in private cloud. The existing works for data transformation used in hybrid clouds does not address multiple objectives of privacy, security, fine grained access control, utility preservation for mining and data retrieval efficiency. This work proposes a multi objective data transformation technique for hybrid cloud to address all these objectives. The proposed solution is built on attribute based hierarchical data access control with hierarchy selection based on joint consideration of security, utility preservation and retrieval efficiency. The proposed solution is able to provide 5% higher security strength, 1.34% higher clustering accuracy over perturbed data and 29.95 % higher data retrieval efficiency over perturbed data compared to existing works.

After years of development, cloud computing has developed into public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, hybrid cloud and other cloud forms. However, the government, financial and other industries have more concerns about security, operation and maintenance, cost and other issues in the process of cloud. In this regard, the industry, academia and other parties have launched the frontier exploration, give different solutions. To meet users’ new needs, we proposed a new model that combines the advantages of public and private clouds. It is called proprietary cloud. Proprietary cloud provides users with more efficient management by incorporating years of experience of public cloud providers. On the one hand, it meets the rigid needs of users’ independent control and exclusive resources, on the other hand, it reduces the maintenance cost and downtime probability of users, and achieves the desired effect of users. It mainly includes self-built model and exclusive model deployment modes. The main difference is whether to accept public cloud management. This paper introduces and analyzes proprietary cloud in detail from the aspects of deployment architecture, mode differences and common deployment patterns. It concludes that proprietary cloud is an indispensable cloud computing deployment pattern in the future.KeywordsCloud computingDigital transformationProprietary cloud

Workflows have been used to represent a variety of applications involving high processing and storage demands. As a solution to supply this necessity, the cloud computing paradigm has emerged as an on-demand resources provider. While public clouds charge users in a per-use basis, private clouds are owned by users and can be utilized with no charge. When a public cloud and a private cloud are merged, we have what we call a hybrid cloud. In a hybrid cloud, the user has elasticity provided by public cloud resources that can be aggregated to the private resources pool as necessary. One question faced by the users in such systems is: Which are the best resources to request from a public cloud based on the current demand and on resources costs? In this paper we deal with this problem, presenting HCOC: The Hybrid Cloud Optimized Cost scheduling algorithm. HCOC decides which resources should be leased from the public cloud and aggregated to the private cloud to provide sufficient processing power to execute a workflow within a given execution time. We present extensive experimental and simulation results which show that HCOC can reduce costs while achieving the established desired execution time.

Building on compute and storage virtualization, Cloud Computing provides scalable, network-centric, abstracted IT infrastructure, platforms, and applications as on-demand services that are billed by consumption. Cloud Service Engineering is the application of a systematic approach to leverage Cloud Computing in the context of the Internet in its combined role as a platform for technical, economic, organizational and social networks. This tutorial introduces concepts and technology of Cloud Computing and Cloud Service Engineering, providing an overview of state-of-the-art in research and practice. We show how to set up a private Cloud that delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are popular open source software frameworks for creating on-premise Clouds. Promises, challenges and solutions for integrating services of a private Cloud with public Cloud services such as Amazon EC2 and SQS are discussed. We show how the best of both worlds - private and public Clouds - can be combined to build scalable and secure systems.

Universities all around the world play a vital role in improving the society. But in the current economic crisis, they are facing difficulties in providing necessary resources for research and educational purposes. The solution of this problem is in the use of Cloud Computing. It is a new distributive computing model which provides applications and services over the Internet. In this paper, we investigate, study, and simulate a cloud for a university environment. We propose an architecture based on the hybrid cloud model which uses both the public and private clouds. It consists of two main parts, i.e., the Cloud Management System and the Hybrid Cloud. The proposed architecture is simulated using CloudSim. The evaluation of this architecture is performed for two separate scenarios. In the first one, the number of tasks is kept constant; and in the second, the number of tasks is changed. The results obtained are encouraging and support the use of a hybrid cloud solution for a university. The public cloud is used only to get a better performance or when the load is too high for the private cloud. The results show that high performance can be obtained while keeping the cost low.

As businesses navigate the complexities of modern IT infrastructure, hybrid cloud solutions have emerged as a compelling choice, blending the strengths of both public and private cloud environments. The increased adoption of hybrid cloud is driven by the need for flexibility, scalability, and enhanced security, allowing organizations to optimize their operations and adapt to changing demands. By leveraging the best of both worlds, companies can maintain sensitive data on private clouds while taking advantage of the expansive resources and cost efficiencies offered by public clouds. This balanced approach not only ensures business continuity and disaster recovery but also supports the seamless integration of legacy systems with cutting-edge cloud technologies. Moreover, the hybrid cloud model offers organizations the agility to innovate rapidly, respond to market changes, and meet regulatory requirements without compromising performance or security. As more businesses recognize the strategic benefits of hybrid cloud, its adoption is expected to accelerate, making it a cornerstone of digital transformation initiatives. This article explores the rising trend of hybrid cloud adoption, highlighting its key advantages, challenges, and the role it plays in shaping the future of enterprise IT.

Cyber laboratory for FPGA design experiments combines the actual laboratory and the remote laboratory in a seamless way in a hybrid cloud environment. The hybrid cloud consists of on premise private cloud to support device dependent services and a public cloud to support rest of the laboratory services. The on premise private cloud allows concurrent use of device dependent tasks, such as FPGA run services, by making use of the Web services. The elastic nature of the public cloud is suitable for coping with dynamically changing student experimental usages. The number of servers in the public cloud can be scale out or shrink according to the number of simultaneous students accesses. Expensive license CAD tools, such as Verilog-HDL synthesis tools, are allocated for a limited number of the servers in the public cloud and the private cloud, where Verilog-HDL synthesis Web services are realized to achieve remote sharing of these tools. For remote laboratory case, student virtual machines are allocated in the public cloud and remotely issue the FPGA run services and the Verilog-HDL Synthesis services. The existing faculty file/database and education support system serves as an adhesive agent to combine the on premise cloud and the public cloud to minimize the data transfer among them and to perform student VM migrations between remote and actual laboratories. The Cyber Laboratory achieves an efficient use of laboratory platforms and can reduce TCO (total cost of ownership), as the public cloud can cope with the dynamically changing experimental loads.

With the development of cloud computing, hybrid cloud has attracted extensive attention. It is a flexible collaboration of private clouds and public clouds, which can meet the increasing demands of energy consumption while reduce overhead. However, the clouds in hybrid clouds have to share data with each other. Therefore, hybrid connection mechanism remains a big issue. VPN is a common solution used as a bridge for connecting private clouds and public clouds. Using VPN to construct a direct connected network is a simple solution to implement where all the clients in hybrid cloud connect to a specified OpenVPN server residing in public cloud. Unfortunately, it will result in many problems impacting the efficiency of network. In this paper, we propose a proxy based virtual network solution. To compare the network QoS of the proxy based virtual network solution to the direct connected virtual network solution, we designed three controlled experiments measuring the bandwidth and delay time of the intra-cloud and inter-cloud communication. Then we compare the network performance of direct connected virtual network solution and proxy based virtual network with a Hadoop application on a hybrid cloud environment. The experiment result indicates that the proxy based virtual network solution outperforms the direct connected virtual network solution.

Besides well-known benefits, commodity cloud storage also raises concerns that include security, reliability, and consistency. We present Hybris key-value store, the first robust hybrid cloud storage system, aiming at addressing these concerns leveraging both private and public cloud resources. Hybris robustly replicates metadata on trusted private premises (private cloud), separately from data, which are dispersed (using replication or erasure coding) across multiple untrusted public clouds. Hybris maintains metadata stored on private premises at the order of few dozens of bytes per key, avoiding the scalability bottleneck at the private cloud. In turn, the hybrid design allows Hybris to efficiently and robustly tolerate cloud outages but also potential malice in clouds without overhead. Namely, to tolerate up to f malicious clouds, in the common case of the Hybris variant with data replication, writes replicate data across f +1 clouds, whereas reads involve a single cloud. In the worst case, only up to f additional clouds are used. This is considerably better than earlier multi-cloud storage systems that required costly 3 f +1 clouds to mask f potentially malicious clouds. Finally, Hybris leverages strong metadata consistency to guarantee to Hybris applications strong data consistency without any modifications to the eventually consistent public clouds. We implemented Hybris in Java and evaluated it using a series of micro and macro-benchmarks. Our results show that Hybris significantly outperforms comparable multi-cloud storage systems and approaches the performance of bare-bone commodity public cloud storage.