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Cloud Computing as a BCM tool
Lukášová, Pavlína ; Chlapek, Dušan (advisor) ; Dotlačil, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis deals with possible interconnections between two concepts playing a big role in contemporary business and IT world. These concepts are Business Continuity Management and Cloud Computing. In the scope of this thesis there are certain areas identified where both concepts are complement, where Cloud Computing brings new opportunities for Business Continuity Management and where could possible problems arise during particular implementation. From the BCM perspective the impact lies on IT services, from the Cloud Computing perspective the thesis deals especially with security aspects. The thesis is also aimed at the characteristics of higher education and basic differences from commercial sphere. Based on defined differences and identified interconnections between BCM and Cloud Computing, the thesis argues for usage of suitable Cloud Computing solution for higher education regarding Business Continuity improvement. The multi-criterion comparison of several Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions stems from this analysis focusing on technical, financial, and Business Continuity aspects. The result from this comparison together with conclusions from previous chapters serve as an input for subsequent practical proposal of Cloud Computing solution and its verification against Business Continuity improvement in specific conditions on University of Economics in Prague. The proposal is also represented by strategic map.
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Usage of virtualization in the small and medium businesses area - business plan
Skalický, Michal ; Bruckner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hrůša, Petr (referee)
In these days the term virtualization is almost everywhere, especially in relation with server virtualization. One of the main goals is to describe the part of virtualization which is today not so known although it could have the same meaning for companies as the server virtualization had a few years ago. It is a desktop virtualization and this work includes not just a wide description of this but also related technologies such as data storage virtualization, application virtualization and cloud computing. Another goal is to hold desktop virtualization and find its benefits by placing into the area of small and medium businesses. Thesis is not focused only on the positives of using this technology but also on overall aspects of its use including related risks. Entire part of this thesis is business plan of the company that currently offers virtualization as a complex service for small and medium enterprises. Essential is not just a complete description of the fast growing area, but also concept the practical filling by the plan, which is in the acceptable form for potential investor.
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Practical testing of current virtualization technologies, comparison of services on Czech and foreign market
Rudolf, Michal ; Bruckner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Luboš (referee)
The main objective of this work is to provide information on the newest trends in hardware virtualization technologies and Cloud computing. At first, the work provides information on the functioning principles of all types of virtualization technologies. Key terminology relating to virtualization technology is explained here. The main part of the work comprises practical testing of chosen virtualization technologies performance. Performance testing is done by means of benchmark applications that measure the performance of the most important system parameters. During the testing, virtualization technologies are compared according to the attained results. The result of the testing is a summary of performance overhead of individual virtualization technologies compared to physical server without a virtualization layer. The last part is focused on identification of main players on expanding Cloud service market, whose services present an alternative to purchasing one's own hardware.
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Cloud computing with regard to technological aspects and changes in infrastructure
Vítek, Daniel ; Donát, Jiří (advisor) ; Bruckner, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis discusses the new way of delivering IT services over the Internet widely known as cloud computing. In its opening part, cloud computing is put into a historical context of the evolution of enterprise computing, and the dominant issues the IT department faces today are mentioned. Further, the paper deals with several components that make up the architecture of cloud computing and reviews the benefits and drawbacks an enterprise can have while it adopts this new model. One of the primary aims of this thesis is to identify the impact of the technology trends on cloud computing. The thesis brings together four major computing trends, namely virtualization, multi-tenant architecture, service-oriented architecture and grid computing. Another aim is to focus on two trends related to IT infrastructure that will lead to fundamental changes in IT industry. The first of them is the emergence of extremely large-scale data centers at low cost locations, which can serve tremendous amount of customers and achieve considerable economies of scale. The second trend this paper points out is the shift from multi-purpose all-in-one computers into a wide range of mobile devices dedicated to a specific user's needs. The last aim of this thesis is to clarify the economic impact of cloud computing in terms of costs and changes in business models. The thesis concludes by evaluating the current adoption and predicting the future trend of cloud computing.
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Comparison of Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer
Ferbr, David ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Palovský, Radomír (referee)
This work aims at comparison of the two freely availabe virtualization solutions developed by commercial companies. It analyses the possibilities provided ty these products, their management tools and procedures and the consequences resulting from their differences. These goals are achieved through studying the available resource about the products and virtualization in general, followed by doing a practical test of running the products. The work provides the reader with guide to choosing the right virtualization tool and shows the ways how to work with it. It starts with explaining the basic terms in the area of virtualization and continues by introducing the products and their features and how to manage and use them, finishing with the conlusive evaluation.
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Business continuity management and virtual machines
Salák, Ondřej ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Martanová, Kateřina (referee)
The aim of this work is to provide a basic overview of ways to improve business continuity management and planning using virtualization. First, the reader is briefly introduced to the concept of Business continuity management and the concept of virtualization. Then the relationship between these two areas is analyzed. Finally, I chose to analyze a set of utilities, which come with VMware vSphere product, which is the product of VMware Company. The aim of the practical part is to verify the functionality of some of these tools.
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Selected consequences of society‘s informatization
Zíma, Stanislav ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to describe selected consequences of informatization on the basis of three different views' critical synthesis. First view is an historical perspective focused on medialisation of information and its influence on shaping of man's thinking. On the background of technological progress are shown the milestones in changing of social reality. Another view is to describe the infromation society as a present phenomenon with its general characteristics. The last point of view is based on the hypothesis sof Global brain, which describes mankind as a network of nerve cells, connected to global computer network. Thesis is not intended to be a comprehesive overview of the informatization's consequences but it tries to explain basic issues related to information society.
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Virtualization aplication for monitoring networks
Kafka, Jan ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Gála, Libor (referee)
Virtualization is a promising information technology industry today. Whether for reasons of economies, achieve high availability of services, or facilitate the administration etc., gets more and more benefits.With the development of virtualization has been the transition from simple emulation, which was simply procesed as the code processor and simulated a complete computer, the hardware assisted emulation or Paravirtualization make the directing of this process has become almost negligible - literature generally indicates less than three percent. Virtualization also opens the way into the most demanding server applications, where in addition to high availability of services depends also on the optimal use of available hardware resources.The first part is a description of the reasons brought the benefits of deploying a virtualization server environment. The following section discusses virtualization techniques, their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages and most common server virtualization products. In the next chapter are explained the ways to achieve high service availability in a virtualized server environment, and examples of products of VMware, which is the industry leader. Chapter discussed concepts such as cold migration, live migration, technology VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance, and more. The last chapter is devoted to the practical part of the bachelor thesis. Describes hardware preparation for the experimental environment, the setup, configuration, problems during preparation laboratory network and the installation of dedicated virtualization product, VMware ESX 4.0 64bit. In last part will be describe installation and configuration monitoring software, OpenNMS on server virtualization. At the end, will be examination how fail activities impact on virtualization monitoring software and how rescue this software application VMware ESX 4.0.
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CRM Software-as-a-Service in Czech Republic
Maňáková, Helena ; Žebrák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Kacerovský, Jiří (referee)
Customer relationship management includes all the sophisticated methodologies. It is a comprehensive way to manage the relationships which company has with its customers. There is a fierce competiton between companies, small businesses have to compete on equal terms with large organizations. This situation leads to discussion about customer oriented approach and diligence to prevent the loss of customer portfolio. Increase in the knowledge of customers is a key point of success. Information technology boosts customer relationship management. Companies face expensiveness of technologies and they try to find cheaper and more reachable solution. To find and evaluate criteria of success of CRM Software-as-a-Service in Czech Republic is the objective of my thesis. The goal is to define a method on how to find aspects of success, to research and to evaluate the results. Thesis contains insight into levels of CRM, summary of criteria of CRM choice, description of SaaS technology, research, results and final conclusion.
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