Deploying an OpenStack cloud computing framework for university campus

The cloud computing paradigm is having its moment of glory. A number of enterprises are adopting the cloud computing platform to experience the benefits of self serviced, user guided, rapidly scalable and flexible environment. The time is right for the educational universities also to derive benefits of the cloud as these institutions are obliged to deliver better ubiquitous services to students with existing limited resources. This paper implements an OpenStack cloud computing framework which can be used for diverse applications. It can be tailored according to the university needs such as a self service platform to achieve virtualization, to implement community clouds as collaboration between educational organizations or even as a test bed for students to develop applications. The paper also propounds on some use cases that are achievable with the cloud computing deployment.