CAPSTONE PROJECT CONTRACT

CLOUD COMPUTING & ITS APPLICATIONS

Implementing IaaS cloud in online educational services company (EduKart).

Team Members
SAI SRINIVAS THOTA
ABHISHEK MILIND DHOLE
KIRAN VARDHAN REDDY DEREDDY
SOUMITH REDDY PODDUTURU
MURALI SHANKAR EEDARA
NIKHIL REDDY GUDUR

Index
1. Title and type of project
2. Goals
2.1 Problem Statement
2.2 Research Questions
2.3 Purpose
2.4 Scope
3. Learning Resources
4. Timeline and Responsibilities
5. Project Deliverables
6. Evaluation

1. Title and Type of the Project

Tentative Title:
Cloud computing and its applications
Member names:

Kiran Vardhan Reddy Dereddy

Abhishek Milind Dhole

Murali Shankar Eedara

Nikhilreddy Gudur

Soumith Reddy Podduturu

Sai Srinivas Thota

Type of the project:

IS Technologies Integration
Submission date:
December 19th.

2. Goals:
2.1 Problem statement:
Cloud computing has become a powerful solution for computing problems. Many organizations
are moving towards cloud computing by implementing cloud-computing applications like SaaS,
IaaS, and PaaS etc. for cutting down the costs of computation. A startup company called Edu kart
is planning to implement infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as they are growing up in the market
and wants to expand their services. This helps the company to reduce the costs and also to
increase the efficiency of services provided and also usage of the infrastructure available.

2.2 Research Questions:

Following are the questions (but not constrained to) that might help us to conduct the research on
the topic we chose.

What is the advantage of changing from current infrastructure to cloud infrastructure?

What is the cost associated with implementing the cloud infrastructure in the company?
What are the security measures taken to protect the customer data of the company?

2.3 Purpose:
The purpose of this research is to study the benefits and problems of implementing cloud
applications in startup companies.
To find out the security issues underlying the implementation of cloud based
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Studying the benefits of implementing this in startup company in both organization and
employee perspective.
2.4 Scope:
The scope of our project is to study the implementation of cloud based infrastructure as a
service in a startup company and the advantages of implementing this infrastructure over
traditional infrastructure. The main focus might be to examine the drawbacks of
implementing cloud computing in technical and security aspects.

3. Learning Resources:

We would use the following resources to achieve the goals of our project:

Books and articles on Cloud computing. We would follow books that relate to Cloud Computing

and also applications of cloud computing.

Taking feedbacks and suggestions from employee who work for companies who work on
applications of cloud computing which would help us understand better about pros and cons in

partial implementation.
Since Cloud computing is a practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet
to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer we use most
of the database technologies.

4. Timeline and Responsibilities:

Week 8
Milestone 1:
By end of this week, we will submit our paper with the introduction for the project, problem
statement, purpose, scope, assumptions and limitations.
Milestone 2:
Alongside we will be going for literature review considering following issues:

The advantages of moving data from in house infrastructure to cloud infrastructure.

The security measures to be taken considering customers data as very important for
organization.

Week 10
Milestone 3:

After completing week 8 deliverables, we will be going for in house feedback from technical team
and other employees who will be involved in this project. Later we would be focusing on the
problems going to be arising while pushing data from own servers to cloud. The data collected will
be documented for reference of the team and also future reference for other members.
Week 14
The work done considering milestones 1 and 2 will be submitted to the instructor for literature
review and changes to the project documentation will be done after feedback.
Week 15
Milestone 4:
The outcomes of the project will be observed considering pre-defined project goals and also
feedback from other professionals on the project work. If any appropriate statistical technique is
required to analyze feedback from professionals then
Milestone 5:
Conclusion that includes the summary of the project and contributions made to the university.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Sai Srinivas Thota
Role: Team Leader
Responsibility: He will be coordinating with the complete team and will be assigning timely
tasks and will be building communication between whole team.

Abhishek Milind Dhole

Role: Functional/Technical Analyst
Responsibility: He will be taking care all the technical issues related to data migration to the
cloud and analyzing on the project documentation regular basis to match with the goals of the
project.
Murali Shankar Eedara
Role: Financial Analyst
Responsibility: This is a tentative role and will be assigned other responsibility depending on
requirement basis of the project. As a financial analyst he will be responsible for forecasting and
examining all the financial aspects of the project.
Nikhil Reddy Gudur
Role: Business Analyst
Responsibility: This is a tentative role and responsible for analyzing the business aspects and
even project documentation. He will be building solutions in the aspects of business and solving
them.
Soumith Reddy Podduturu
Role: Literature Expert
Responsibility: He will be reviewing the literature work and suggesting team on timely basis on
for literature review for putting together literature review section.

Kiran Vardhan Reddy Dereddy

Role: Data/Security Analyst
Responsibility: He is responsible all customers data and other study material data to move cloud
and even data security.
5. Project Deliverables:
Excepted Deliverables of our project include the following:
We except to present the goal of the project by a well written document and clearly presented power point
slides answering all the questions.
SWOT analysis
A well written documented report of our research.

6. Evaluation:
Coordination and participation:
The entire group in the group discussion board maintains active participation. Encouragement in
maintained among the team members to put their effort and devotes to complete the project
together. New ideas are encouraged. Everybody in the group helps the leader by taking
coordinate activities, initiative step and suggesting how to plan it. The work, which is allocated
to an individual, is done within time and will return to the leader without creating any sort of
disturbance in the team. Paragraphs and sessions are maintained with smooth transitions.

Clarity:

Clear methodology in maintained and followed to document in our project. Every section within
project will be clearly able to be demonstrated. All the technical terms that are used in the
paragraphs are clearly defined. The status that is used should be clear enough and should follow
all the rules like format, size etc.

Comprehension and synthesis:

What were the issues that were being discussed among the team members will be demonstrated
clearly. Each issue that is relevant to the topic is being selected and addressed thoroughly. Gives
Technical awareness to all the issues in the project. Unifying the literature should what needed to
be focused on but not on the summarizing the matter. Ideas what are to be implemented on the
research should be put forth in the status report.

Application and Critical Thinking:

The solving of the research questions by applying the literature knowledge in a systematic and
logical fashion. The methodology that is to be selected and used in the project should be selected
appropriate. The tools should be properly utilized and the techniques should be followed in an
appropriate way. Sufficient disruption of what is going on in the project is documented. The
findings that are presented should be with a reasonable explanation. The reasonable and relevant
documents are provided.

Completeness and Organization:

As per the guidelines suggested which are suggested the using of the templates and instructions
are followed. Each and every required section is included. The stepwise procedure of the project
is well organized.

References:
PEER REVIEWED MIS or Business journals are considered as references and at least 8 of them
are take and provides not less than 12 references. All the references are sited properly as the way
they should be and also follows the format guide. All the direct quotes that are used in the
paragraphs should be with the quotation marks. More than 3 sentences inside the long quotes are
to be in a single-spaced. Single paragraph inside an overlong quote are to be avoided.

Presentation:
We should prepare a PowerPoint slide in creative and clear manner. All the slides would be clear,
well documented and organized. The questions that were to be raised from the audience should
be answered properly.