Cloud Computing Project - Final Year Academic Project

Cloud operating system is designed to offer applications as services that are provided over a network or the Internet. It means that the system and the applications within it reside on a server and are often used through the browser.

The main goals that this Cloud OS is developed to meet are: 

• Being able to work from everywhere, regardless of whether or not you are using a full-featured, modern computer.
• Providing an environment that can offer applications to be accesses as services online. 
• Always enjoying the same applications with the same open formats, and forgetting the usual compatibility problems between office suites and traditional operating systems.
• Being able to continue working if you have to leave your local computer or if it just crashes, without losing data or time: Just log in to your Cloud OS from another place and continue working. 
• Providing a user friendly environment for the users to freely utilize the servi

The following assumptions are made in order to achieve the above goals and to develop the Cloud OS:

• Internet connectivity is a common service that can be found in almost all computers.

• User familiar environments such as Windows XP, Windows 98 and MacOS are offered as themes so that users can change the environment suitably to feel at home.

• The Environment of the OS and its functionalities such as themes, culture choosers and add/remove applications to manage the environment are given more emphasis in the development to provide a complete OS to the best extent.

 Technologies Used, Requirements and all that:

• Microsoft .Net framework 2.0
• Visual studio 2005
• Visual C# .Net
• ASP.Net 2.0
• AJAX Extensions 1.0
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

The Cloud OS has been designed to work with standard protocols.

Only limited applications have been included to demonstrate the Cloud Computing Concept as a part of College Academic project. Not to be taken seriously as a perfect Cloud Computing Operating System model. :)