Author : Keshav Kori , Shraddha Masih and Sanjay Tanwani

A private cloud solution for university is designed to maximize the utilization of hardware by combining workloads from various applications and services in a managed, secure, and reliable way. Cloud helps the institute to get the maximum computing capacity out of existing institution infrastructure. Private cloud solution is built through DevStack (for Platform as a Service offered by Openstack) and OwnCloud (for Storage as a Service). University private cloud solutions consolidate and optimize existing hardware to help reduce equipment, maintenance, and energy costs while enabling self-service, automation, scalability, and elasticity. A comparison of resource utilization in cloud and cost of infrastructure has been done and the benefits of using private cloud are identified.

Keywords: Platform as a service (PaaS), Owncloud, Private cloud, Storage as a Service (SaaS), OpenStack.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)