TAG Cloud® 1 TAG-Org 2022

The vision of Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, the Chairman of TAGORG, was to establish, run and maintain the first Arab Comprehensive Private Cloud Computing project. After launching the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University TAGIUNI, it was necessary to involve the new University in the project, which will make it one of the worldwide leader universities that offer a Cloud Computing Service for its students and partnered universities. 2 In 2012, TAGORG began TAG-Cloud projects, which was divided into four main projects. © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved

3 TAG-Cloud has furious functions but the following are the most important projects run by TAG-Cloud: TAG Cloud … Project 1: To be virtualized. Project 2: To have TAG Private Cloud Project 3: To have a Disaster Recovery Site. Project 4: To run Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI. Project 5: To join TAGIUNI to the Cloud Computing. The Cloud of TAGORG will serve all TAG-Org’s offices worldwide, from two advanced virtualized Data Centers located in Amman and Cairo. TAG Cloud might be considered as a Public Cloud Provider, but for security reasons this phase will be deferred for the future.

4 © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved To be Virtualized Virtualization means to hide the physical characteristics of computing resources (Servers and Storage machines), by making a single physical resource function as multiple virtual resources. TAGORG Virtualization was the solution to replace 72 physical servers with 8 new physical servers, by converting all physical servers (72 physical servers) to Virtual Machines on these 8 servers.

5 © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved To be Virtualized … Advantages of Virtualization 1.Data Security 2.Saving Energy and going green. 3.Less Support and Technical personnel Required. 4.Reduce the data center size. 5.Faster server provisioning. 6.Increase uptime. 7.Improve disaster recovery. The TAG Cloud Virtualized by using the VMWare Hypervisor, through a partnership agreement with them, to provide consulting for Virtualization and Cloud Computing in the Arab World. This phase was finalized successfully on March 2013.

6 To have TAG Private Cloud The simplest definition for Cloud Computing is to reach your virtualized data or servers or applications, through the network (Internet) by using any type of processing machine. © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved The Services offered within Cloud Computing is: 1.IaaS : Infrastructure as a Service. 2.PaaS : Platform as a Service. 3.SaaS : Software as a Service Note: Although innovation is offering new more services in the field but these are considered as the most important and TAGORG intend to have the three main services mentioned above, with the best performance..

7 To have TAG Private Cloud By using any of the Cloud Computing service models means that you are using the cloud computing. TAG-Cloud started with the third service model: SaaS using Horizon Workspace “ VMWare SaaS product”. This Solution allows to provide the users in TAG-Org with access to software applications and the administrators manage the infrastructure and platforms that run these applications. Horizon Workspace Overview “Video” Horizon Workspace live demo. © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved

8 To have a Disaster Recovery Site DR. It is a secondary Data Center that contains the same services and resources of the main Data Center, which all users and organization requests transferred to it, in the case of failover at the main Data Center. Advantages of DR Site: 1.Consistency and load balancing for Cloud users. 2.Short recovery time. 3.Business Continuity.

9 © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI The Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is server-based computing model that adds of virtualization between the server and the desktop PCs by using virtual machines running on centralized servers to host desktop operating system. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the same operation of Virtualization but not on Servers, it is virtualization the end users’ desktops.. All VDI machines are centralized. The end user accesses his machine through web or unique clients, from anywhere, and through any computing machine. VDI Solution will be made by using Microsoft 2012 Hypervisor.

10 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI Why VDI? -Independency -Data Security -Flexibility -Improve data backup and disaster recovery capabilities -Improve compliance management

11 © 2014 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org).All Rights Reserved TAGIUNI Cloud All infrastructure needed by TAGIUNI will be provided through TAGORG Cloud. TAGUNI Cloud will include:  Software As a Service Cloud solution.  VDI Solution, which will be offered to TAGIUNI students and partners.  A dedicated Social Media portal, which will be similar to Facebook, but dedicated for TAGIUNI Students. END