A Report on Guest Lecture ‘Cloud Computing Technologies’

Session Summary:

Date : 08^th April 2023
Time : 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Venue: At Smt. Rajalakshmi Jayaraman Seminar Hall.

Inauguration at 10:00 A.M followed by

Welcome speech (by students - Aparna & Vishaka)
Inaugural Talk

Inagurated by:
Prof.R.Kumar, i/c HoD of ISE/CD, MVJCE, inaugurated the event, and transferred his Industry knowledge about Cloud Computing to the students.

Resource Person:
Mr. Uday Kumar,
Technology Leadership, Transformation Agile Practitioner,
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, KSOU, Mysore.

Target Participants:

Students (Participated:150)
Faculty

Lecture Summary:

The expert speaker Mr. Uday Kumar started his talk by giving introduction about cloud computing. He started with the challenges the IT industry would face, if cloud computing wouldn’t have existed and the problems, the industry would have faced.

He gave brief introduction on characteristics of cloud computing:

Broad Network Access
Rapid Elasticity
Measured Service, Pay on use
On Demand, Self Service
Resource Pooling

Followed by he spoke about three important service models, by giving clear difference among the service models based on flexibility, control and responsibilities of each service model in cloud computing:

SaaS (Software as a Service)
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Further he continued the discussions with the four types of deployment models along with the differences, based on security between the models:

Private
Public
Hybrid
Community

He made us understand the importance of cloud computing in IT Industry, advantages of cloud computing and he gave detailed overview on how cloud is playing a prominent role in IT as well as in our daily routine. For example: e-commerce sites. He listed the advantages of using cloud over the traditional storage:

Access Anywhere
Easy Implementation
No upfront cost
Pay per Usage
Better Security
Maintenance Free
Instant Scalability

Finally he concluded with some of the use cases of cloud computing by telling us how it’s better than the traditional one, and how many fields are prominently making use of cloud:

Traffic/Load Bursting
Backup/Disaster
Web Hosting
Development and Testing
Proof of Concepts
Big Data/ Data Manipulation

And finally he listed some of the top cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, Microsoft ,Google , VM-ware etc.

Guest Lecture Benefits:
Participants showed keen interest in learning the concepts, methodologies and gave satisfactory feedback at the end of the session.

Outcome of the Event:

The participants understood the concepts in Cloud Computing, its advantages, applications and challenges. They were also were familiarized with Microsoft Azure Platform for setting up the Cloud environment. The Guest Lecture aimed to bridge the gap between study materials and practical exposure - and the students benefited from the PO’s Engineering Knowledge, Problem Analysis, Design/Development of solutions, Modern Tool Usage and Life Long Learning.