VCL using Private Cloud

In a typical college all the computers are networked and used by various stakeholders. Students perform various practicals on daily basis and surf internet via gateway and proxy. They do not have a centralized data storage facility and have excessive dependency on pen-drives which serve as the premium source of virus and worms. They also face problems due to data duplication. The computational power required for research and development activities may not be available with the faculty members. Lab assistant need to repetitively perform the tedious task of installing various third party software’s as per the subject requirements. The colleges face the problems of inefficient usage of internet bandwidth and the high cost is involved in purchasing licensed software’s.They face the issue of misuse of internet(access to blocked sites) by using software to bypass proxy server. They lack repository for storing the final year projects and projects are just enclosed within black books (i.e. NO IPR of the student’s project).

To overcome these general problems faced by the colleges ,the department has come up  with and implemented  the concept of “Virtual Computing LAB using Private Cloud” .The advantage  is that every student now has his/her storage space on the cloud. Students use the cloud storage space to store their project.Students launch multiple virtual machine instances (based on various practical’s) from any computer and can attach his/her storage space to that particular instance to save the work done. All the internet access is via browser of the virtual instance launched which restricts students from unnecessary downloads.Even if an instance is affected with virus it remains in that particular instance and won’t affect other virtual machines launched.