Cloud Computing brought all essential services nearer to the users

KALABURAGI; PROF Rajkumar Buyya, Director Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (Clouds) Lab in the University of Melbourne in Australia, who is an established expert in cloud computing and quantum computing, said that the cloud computing had brought all the essential services including the health, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and other services used on daily basis by the people nearer to the users.

Delivering a lecture an International Seminar on “Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud, Edge and Quantum Computing” organized jointly by the Sharnbasva University, IETE Kalaburagi Centre and IETE Student Forum at the Poojya Basavarajappa Appa Memorial Hall in Kalaburagi City on Thursday,  Prof Buyya who hails from a remote village Kounta (b) in Bidar district and settled in Australia, said that the computing in general has transformed to a model consisting of services that are delivered in a manner similar to utilisities such as water, electricity, gas and communication.

He said in a similar model, user’s access services based on their requirement without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered.  Cloud Computing paradigm has turned this vision of “computing utilities” into a reality. It offered infrastructure, platform and software as services, which are made available to consumer as subscription oriented services.  Millions of users from different sectors are benefitted by the cloud computing now and the number of users benefitted by cloud computing and the new services are adding up fast every day to make the life simpler and easier for the people.

Prof Buyya, a redmond Barry Distinguished Professor who has won many prestigious awards is recognized as “Highly Cited Researcher” for six consecutive years since 2016 and had won the prestigious Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and Cloud Architect of the year Award from Oracle in 2022 and other international awards.

He said that the cloud computing included applied artificial intelligence, advanced connectivity, future of bioengineering, future of clean engineering, market oriented clouds and platform, health care services and others. The cloud computing is based on pay for what you use concept and for example if an emergency information sought on health care issues by an user the user charges would be higher and if the normal services are sought the charges levied would be lower.

He said that the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enabled seamless integration of cyber and physical words and opening opportunities for creating new class of applications for domains such as smart cities, smart robotics and smart healthcare. The emerging Fog/Edge computing paradigms support latency sensitive and real time IoT application with a seamless integration of network-wide resources all the way from edge to the cloud.

Prof Buyya’s address dwelled in detail the 21st Century vision of computing and intendified various IT paradigms to deliver the vision of computing utilities including innovative architecture for creating elastic clouds integrating edge resources and managed clouds and other details.

Secretary of the Sharanabasaveshwar Vidya Vardak Sangha Mr Basavaraj Deshmukh made introductory remarks. Pro Vice Chancellor of the University Prof V D Mytri, Registrar of the University Dr Anilkumar Bidve,  Dean of the University Dr Lakshmi Patil Maka were among others who were present.