SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND REDESIGN PROJECT: PHASE 3
Running head: Systems Analysis and Redesign Project: Phase 2 1
Systems Analysis and Redesign Project: Phase 2 8
Hybrid Multi-Cloud METHODOLOGY
Jerry Quarles
BMIS 530 Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Design
Dr. Michael Hart
July 23, 2021
Table of Contents Introduction 3 Literature Review 4 Systems Analysis Diagrams………………………………………………………………………………...6 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………15 Reference………………………………………………………………………………………...15 Appendices……………………………………………………………………………………….16 Appendix 1………………………………………………………………………………….16 Appendix 2………………………………………………………………………………….19 Appendix 3………………………………………………………………………………….20
Introduction
Phase two of the project design will provide a detailed literature review of the current information system to the new private on-premises cloud-based information system. There could be several solutions that make a multi-cloud environment. There are numerous types of cloud computing services that emphasize security and offer the best solution to keep things in control. The new private on-premises cloud-based information system keeps things secure, divides the workload, and keeps things on track. Hybrid clouds help in the management of all types of data within the organization. A hybrid cloud is a combination of both private and public clouds.
The current cloud is not secure and safe enough to manage and keep data for the long term. The organization is using the public cloud that helps manage malicious attacks in a public environment, and this gap could be filled using a hybrid cloud environment. Despite hybrid cloud is an extremely important enterprise paradigm, there are still important open issues to be addressed related to intermittent connectivity, transparent support, policy enforcement management, management of resources under strict service level agreement (SLA) conditions, as well as privacy and anonymization issues related to data and workload portability across the hybrid cloud.
Depending on the infrastructure of each company and the needs of each business, a hybrid cloud is helpful in the management of business operations. Trends of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud become a need of every small and large business enterprise. Due to an increase in encrypted HTTPS traffic, inspecting data and preventing attacks pose a significant challenge for today's security professionals. A new SSL intercept capability solves this challenge by decrypting HTTPS traffic on a high-performance, scalable platform, making clear text traffic available to third-party security services and devices, and re-encrypting traffic in a transparent manner to clients and servers (Gale 2021).
The paper further provides a detailed literature review related to the public cloud and hybrid cloud implementation within the workplace to transform proposed business processes, security standards, and management of workload.
Literature Review
Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Management Platform is far better than a cloud system, and it is proved through the applications and adaptation of hybrid cloud management platforms across business industries. Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Management Platform offers higher security-resilience, flexibility, and deployment of business processes that seem too cost-effective and timesaving. The workload could be deployed into a positive and manageable work environment in a multi-cloud work environment that can't be handled in a single cloud environment. The implementation of the single cloud couldn't make sense and fails to meet security and business requirements (CDW, 2018). But the implementation of both cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure will be an option that will bring dual security for organizations.
When it comes to cost analysis, the public cloud is a cost-effective option. Still, it didn't seem effective in providing enough storage and bandwidth to keep organizational documents and deployment of data. Enterprises seeking flexibility, maintenance, cost-benefit, and security, and single cloud implementation is not an effective and efficient option, but it needs a hybrid or multi-cloud implementation (Khan & Ullah, 2016). Cloud management software or multi-cloud environment helps deploy external and internal clouds with a user application and enables organizations to manage their operations effectively. In the modern business world, organizations deal with complex technologies. Thus, they need technologies that do not waste time and money but manage workplace operations and comply with the organizational goals.
Along with the advancement and innovation happening everywhere globally, concerns regarding the security and safety of business operations also increased. Research says that 80% of the business applications are taking shifts towards cloud opportunities and optimizing supply chains because cloud solutions efficiently provide security and safety (CDW, 2018). Researchers further say that business executives are invited to invest in hybrid multi-cloud platform strategies and focus on integrating hybrid multi-cloud platforms within the organization to enhance organizational operations and management of security concerns. 68% of businesses focus on implementing advanced cloud and open-source cloud platforms to transform business practices (Comfort, Dolph, & Robinson, 2020).
New business models in the 21st century emphasize integrating hybrid multi-cloud platforms as a fundamental part of business planning. It is what they wanted to do to transform the infrastructure of business organizations. The value derived from a hybrid multi-cloud platform is 2.5 times higher than the value derived from a business organization running on simple advanced technologies (Comfort, Dolph, & Robinson, 2020). by keeping organizational operations secure and safe hybrid multi-cloud platforms transforming the way businesses operate for years. There are different ways IT and cloud are being used in business organizations, such as some organizations using the cloud for optimization of the supply chain, some are using the cloud to bridge the longstanding difference between business and innovation, and some are using it to embrace digital transformation. But in coming years, cloud or cloud-based platforms will become an important need and unmet requirement.
Cloud platform or hybrid multi-cloud strategy cannot be designed in isolation, but it needs a context of the business objectives and specific limitations to achieve strategies. To ensure that there won't be gaps in the proposed strategy, it should be viewed holistically and put together all the parts. Research says that only 27% of businesses offer a holistic multi-cloud management strategy and provide an overview of the organization before implementing a hybrid multi-cloud strategy (Comfort, Dolph, & Robinson, 2020).
The current system is not effective and efficient enough to meet the needs of individual organizations; thus, the comparison with the hybrid multi-cloud interface shows us that it is required and should be implemented in every business setting regardless of the size and purpose of the business. Privacy and confidentiality of information can also be protected under secure and strong security paradigms. Literature on hybrid data and cloud is not abundant; that is why there are numerous gaps that the study will cover by showing the difference between cloud and hybrid multi-cloud systems (Chuang, Chang, & Sung, 2011). Along with managing administrative workload, multi-cloud also contributes to enhancing business security. Regardless of the need posed by modern business, cloud-based business is a relatively modest choice. Security, accessibility, and control are major risks associated with the public cloud system, and these needs motivated the implementation of a hybrid multi-cloud system. The organization that merely relies on the public cloud faces difficulty and loses control over the organizational data and management of internal and external processes (Géczy, Izumi, & Hasida, 2013).
Systems Analysis Diagrams
The old system has a single Cloud Service Provider (CSP) using ASW + Nethub
Use Case Descriptions New System
The New improved system involves multiple clouds working together, AWS + Azure
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Improved System |
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This use case involves multiple clouds working together, including both public and private. A hybrid cloud environment combines the advantages of public clouds and private clouds, users save encrypted data in public clouds while using private clouds to compute resources. The provider of the hybrid cloud must manage cloud resources based on the consumer’s terms. Servers supporting the web site must be hosted in a data center with access from the public Internet. Traditionally, this has been achieved by renting space for physical servers in a hosting center operated by a network provider far from the enterprise’s internal systems. Targeted at data center and edge computing use cases, customers can leverage the reference architectures to rapidly deploy enterprise-class applications on their existing hardware infrastructure and efficiently handle complicated hybrid- and multi-cloud tasks (Gurgaon 2020). |
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New Improved System |
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Use Case Listing and Description of Goals
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Activity Diagram Old System
Activity Diagram New System
In concurrency, multiple flows of activities start at fork node simultaneously; and the same might produce a permutation for next activity nodes in test scenario or sequence by alternating control between nodes under fork-join. In the absence of switch point in concurrent sub-queues, all nodes will get executed in the serial order, consequently ensuing loss of concurrency among the activities.
Sequence Diagram Old System
actor User
participant Cloud Owner
participant Cloud Server
participant Service Provider
participant Client
participant File Upload
participant Reports
User->Cloud Owner: Login
Cloud Owner->Cloud Server: Authentication Request
activate Service Provider
Service Provider<-Reports: Report Info
Cloud Owner<-Cloud Server: Session Credentials
note over Reports: File uploads to server
Cloud Server->Client: Authentication Response
File Upload->Reports: Files Reports: Reports
Sequence Diagram New System
actor User
participant Cloud Owner
participant Cloud Server
participant Service Provider
participant Client
participant File Upload
participant Reports
participant Database
User->Cloud Owner: Login
Cloud Owner->Cloud Server: Authentication Request
activate Service Provider
Cloud Server->Client: Authentication Response
Cloud Owner->Database:AI Multicloud Management
Cloud Owner<--Cloud Server: Session Credentials
Service Provider<-Reports: Report Info
activate Cloud Server
Cloud Server<-Client: File Splitting Stored at Multicloud
File Upload->Reports: Files Reports: Reports
activate Cloud Server
note over Reports: File uploads to server
Cloud Server->Reports: Verify File with key and downloading's
Cloud Server<-Service Provider: Hackers Information
Conclusion
To conclude, the comparison of cloud and hybrid multi-cloud systems are two very different system approaches and shows that a single cloud is not enough to meet the needs of a business. The hybrid cloud model provides the best of the private and public worlds, combining the economies and efficiencies of public cloud computing with the security and control of private cloud computing A hybrid multi-cloud system is efficient to meet the business security, safety, accessibility, and digital needs. Implementing a hybrid multi-cloud system will bring positive change for the business organizations that will schedule the ability of a business to cope with challenges. Both clouds differently handle security issues in the business setting and thus make a difference and shape our perception regarding implementing the specific cloud to carry out business operations.
References
CDW. (2018). MANAGING THE HYBRID CLOUD. Right Scale 2018 State of the Cloud Report, 2-10.
Chuang, S.-M., Chang, K.-E., & Sung, Y.-T. (2011). The cost-effective structure for designing a hybrid cloud-based enterprise E-learning platform. IEEE, https://doi.org/10.1109/CCIS.2011.6045123.
Comfort, J., Dolph, B., & Robinson, S. (2020). The hybrid cloud platform advantage. IBM, 10-26.
Géczy, P., Izumi, N., & Hasida, K. (2013). Hybrid Cloud Management: Foundations and Strategies. SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2155190.
Khan, S. U., & Ullah, N. (2016). Challenges in the Adoption of Hybrid Cloud: An Exploratory Study using Systematic Literature Review. The Journal of Engineering 1(1), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301815512_Challenges_in_the_Adoption_of_Hybrid_Cloud_An_Exploratory_Study_using_Systematic_Literature_Review.
Intel and Google Cloud Simplify Hybrid and Multi-Clouds Deployment, Anthos. (2020, Dec 01).
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Use Case Diagram Screenshots
Appendix 2: Activity Diagram Screenshots
Appendix 3: Sequence Diagram Screenshots