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Feasibility study of Hybrid Cloud adoption in education and manufacturing

Mohan, Saravanan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367453037

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2013, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Computer Science and Engineering.
Providing pervasive access to expensive, computational software such as Matlab, Autocad and SPSS has always been a logistical and licensing challenge for faculty who want to train their students with industry standard software. In addition, faculty who want to manage lab exercises, assignments and exams are led to using e-mail to send and receive large files, and are limited in their ability to access/assist in the work-in-progress of students. Here, a methodology and results from our feasibility study to address such challenges by hosting virtual desktops for classroom labs within a federated university system in Ohio. The study leverages universities’ pre-existing high-speed network access at the regional-level to the VDPilot infrastructure in order to: (i) assess the user Quality of Experience (QoE) of accessing desktop applications remotely compared to physically going to a computing lab, and (ii) analyze the challenges and requirements for a shared service amongst collaborating universities. Salient results from both subjective and objective testing in the VDPilot indicated that over 50% of the participants found the virtual desktop user experience to be comparable to their home computer’s user experience, and 8% found the virtual desktop user experience to be better than their home computer user experience. We also describe the findings in terms of resource characteristics, trusted identity, SaaS/DaaS applications and licensing, end-to-end performance monitoring and user support that are informing the development of a virtual classroom lab “cloud service” at the regional-level to serve diverse training needs, and support related multi-tenant and self-service capabilities. Also today manufacturing communities’ workflow is controlled by the use of on-premise application. Our feasibility study also addresses the need for migrating the on-premise infrastructure to a hybrid cloud infrastructure involving SaaS. A pilot project on “City-supported thin-client virtual desktops for Small Businesses” is being developed. Through the use of virtual desktops (Desktop-as-a-Service) and cloud-based applications (Software-as-a-Service), small businesses in Dublin will benefit in a variety of ways. First, the city will manage and host the required data centers and will subsidize the cost with the businesses. Virtual desktops also provide ubiquitous access, increased security and eliminate the need for businesses to upgrade their hardware year after year, or hire expensive consultants to configure test/development environments. The study showed a recommendation model which suggest best hybrid cloud model for addressing the businesses need based on cost and performance of the cloud applications.
Rajiv Ramnath, Dr (Advisor)
Jay Ramanathan, Dr (Committee Member)
Prasad Calyam, Dr (Committee Member)
61 p.
Computer Science
Virtual Desktops; Cloud Pilots; QoE

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  • Mohan, S. (2013). Feasibility study of Hybrid Cloud adoption in education and manufacturing [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367453037

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mohan, Saravanan. Feasibility study of Hybrid Cloud adoption in education and manufacturing. 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367453037.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mohan, Saravanan. "Feasibility study of Hybrid Cloud adoption in education and manufacturing." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367453037

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