Abstract:
ABSTRACT
The educational and academic environments one of the changeable environment especially in the areas of computer and information technology, because the techniques used in education and the college laboratories are changed continuously due to the rapid evolution in technology.
The college of Computer Science and Information Technology in Sudan University of Science and Technology one of the leading colleges in the fields of computer and information technology .This college faces many problems , including the failure to achieve privacy for the students data within the labs because the computers are shared by number of students, and the administrators always use programs to clear the data from computers once the device shutdown to save storage capacity and protect the hardware from viruses and malicious software's. In addition there is high cost for providing programs with license for each device and it is a headache to maintenance these programs. Moreover, the transfer of data from the devices inside and outside the university and vice versa is not safe.
The research aims to provide system offers storage as a service. And provide virtual environment containing tools used to write programs in the laboratory -platform as service- for the users within the college via the Internet.
Cloud computing technique used to implement solution for these problems, which is a new technology with many features such as confidentiality, scalability, flexibility, reliability, and reduce operations and cost.
The solution in this research has been design using cloudstack to offer platform as service, which provides environment for users to complete their jobs and ownCloud which provides storage as service, where people can store their files. Furthermore the first service tested by implementation of a program written in Java within the operating system environment (windows), the second service has been tested by uploading and downloading files from and to the cloud.
A private cloud environment has been offered for users in the college of Computer Science and Information Technology, these cloud managed by the same college and grantee the level of reliability and confidentiality required, the users can access the cloud from anywhere at any time via the Internet, and reduced the cost of buying software and maintenance them.
