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MOVING THE IT INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE CLOUD - Coggle Diagram
MOVING THE IT INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE CLOUD
Cloud computing services
Emerging business model
Bring innovative solutions
Achieve a successful cloud computing migration process.
Technology and information systems
Generators of new business models
Enable competitive advantages for organizations
Cloud computing
Indispensable for businesses that want to remain sustainable and competitive over time
Become a fundamental tool in the knowledge era
Electronic markets
Improve the supply chain by avoiding a physical encounter with intermediaries.
Related Work
Cloud computing definition
Model for enabling convenient, o-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources
Amazon adds to their definition the "pay-as-you-go" pricing characteristic
Cloud service models
SaaS, model provides software applications through the Internet, using a web browser. examples: Box.com and Google Apps
IaaS, It provides a web-based management access to resources such as proccessing capacity, disk space and many others. Examples: DigitalOcean and Microsoft Azure.
PaaS: provides a plataform them to create applications and services accesible through the internet. Examples: Heroku and Apprenda.
Deployment models
Private cloud: provides an exclusive infrastructure to a single organization with multiple employees or customers.
Community cloud: shaare the infrastructure fron a especific community with common concerns such as security, compliance and jurisdiction.
Public cloud: Virtual machines, applications or storage are made available to the public through the Internet
Hybrid cloud: Uses a mix of onpremise, private cloud, and third-party public cloud services.
Existing frameworks for cloud computing adoption
six-step proccess to migrate existing applications to the AWS Cloud
Cloud assessment phase
Proof of concept phase
Data migration phase
Application migration phase
Leverage the cloud phase
Optimization phase
William proposed five-steps
1.Investigation, 2.Evaluation, 3.Decision, 4.Implementation, 5.Iteration
Method
proposes an additional step to assess cloud computing migration to the chosen provider, considering the same business focused framework.
The cloud computing quality-criteria needs to be defined, 1.Performance. 2.Reliability 3.Capacity 4.Availability 5.Security 6.Regulations 7.Operativity
It is time to determine the available alternatives to choose the best provider. The leading three cloud computing providers are: Amazon Web Services(AWS), Windows Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Aspects to evaluate are: -Technical feasibility -Economic feasibility -Legal feasibility
Follow a 7 step proccess
Learn about the cloud computing environment that the company is going to use and get familiar with it
Build support among members of the organization
Test existing software in the cloud
Migrate the company data
Migrate the company software applications
Configure security, scalability, and maintenance options
Deploy
Once the migration process is concluded, IT directors will need to make sure everything is working properly.
if a sound method is in the center of the migration process, the outcomes of this change can bring much and better benefits for organizations.
the use of the right cloud monitoring technologies is needed to assure the performance of these applications.
Organizations that want to remain competitive over time should start thinking in a cloud migration process.
The main goal of the framework is to improve the migration process by minimizing threats and maximizing opportunities.
Supports IT directors in the management of IT assets and business analysts t oreduce uncertainty in the construction and implementation of new technologies