Cloud Computing Workshop Conducted By Chitkara University Himachal Pradesh

Cloud computing is a type of computing that relies on sharing a pool of physical and/or virtual resources, instead of deploying local or personal hardware and software. In Cloud Computing Systems the data is available over the internet rather than on local servers and is changing the face of on-demand computing. One of the key characteristics of cloud computing is the flexibility that it offers and one of the ways that flexibility is offered is through scalability. Since Cloud technology allows automatic allocation and de-allocation of available resource as and when required, it is important to ensure that the level of resource available is closely matched to current demand as much as possible.

Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications that customers deploy. Within the next decade, most of information technology is estimated to be on the cloud.

We at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh recently organized 2 days hands-on workshop on Cloud Computing. This workshop was organized from 3rd September, 2016 to 4th September, 2016 by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Mr. Ajay Kumar Rangra and Mr. Alok Kumar Agrawal, Assistant Professor, CSE Department were the faculty coordinators of the workshop. Mr. Animesh Yadav and Mr. Mangal Kakkar were the resource persons for the workshop. Both are renowned trainers from IFC3 INDIA and AICRADS (this workshop series is an initiative by AICRAD Study (All India Co. For Research & Development Study) & Infero, SciTech Council, IIT Hyderabad in association with IFC3India). IFC3-2017 is India's First Cloud based Computing Championship to be held in March 2017 at IIT Hyderabad. This championship will help students across the country to meet at same platform and to learn about Cloud Computing. Four students of our university are selected to participate in it.

The workshop was conducted in 6 sessions with nice blend of lectures and hand-on sessions. The Cloud Computing Workshop educated the participants to adapt at various cloud computing architectures. Hands-on sessions helped the participants to keep up with Cloud technologies, tools and methodologies required to understand and worked on cloud computing principles used in the IT industry.

Live practicals using Amazon Web Services made the participants clearly understood the working principles of cloud computing. Opening AWS account and getting access to cloud environment, creating instances, allocating disk space, allocating bandwidth, allocating physical location of data, creating SSH login; Using PUTTY and PUTTYGEN for creating public and private keys and doing remote login; Installing and creating virtual machines on VMWare; Allocating disk space, primary memory and computing resources to a given virtual machine. The workshop was great learning experience for the participants. We thank Mr. Animesh Yadav and Mr. Mangal Kakkar for conducting such wonderful workshop and sharing such valuable knowledge with the participants.

By :- Dr. Shaily Jain - HOD, CSE Chitkara University H.P.