“Cloud Computing” is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm and the successor to previous mainframe, client/server and network computing eras. Cloud infrastructures have the potential for economic and functional benefits that will drive the transformation from traditional software and hardware into IT subscription services and pay-per-use models.
An enterprise might subscribe to a public cloud or a private cloud. They might move applications to the cloud or build their own cloud. Whatever the strategy, tailored service level agreements, single or multi-tenancy, scalability and security are tailored to meet the needs of the organization.
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| Business Benefits | Enterprise IT Benefits |
|---|---|
| Turn Capex Into Opex | Elastic Scalability |
| Faster Business Innovation | Pay-As-You Go Efficiency |
| Risk Sharing with Vendors | Data Access Anytime, Anywhere |
| Increase Productivities | Predictable Cost Structure |
| Increase Productivities | Operational Efficiency |
Private Cloud
If an enterprise needs to be the only subscriber based on security or regulation requirements, a private cloud would meet their needs. Then the decision is where the private cloud is to be located, internal or at a cloud-provider? At the cloud-provider will give the most flexibility concerning scalability up and down the environment. The enterprise would let the cloud provider provide the entire infrastructure as a service and the enterprise would focus on the applications.
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Public Cloud
On the other hand, the enterprise may decide to move to a public cloud where the cloud is shared with other subscribers. Like the private cloud, the public would give the enterprise the flexibility to ramp up very quickly and scale back just as easily when demand is low. The cloud provider manages all infrastructure and equipment while the enterprise would pay only for the resources required. The cloud is shared with other subscribers but the applications, web services and data of an enterprise are isolated and secure.
Benefits of the Cloud
There are many types of clouds such as storage clouds, database clouds, testing clouds and platform clouds. There is also the option for hybrid clouds that offer a mix of external and internal (i.e., private) clouds with the capability to move between the two. Regardless of the type of cloud, the benefits include:
| Cost | Capital expenditures |
|---|---|
| Converted to operational expenditure | |
| Agility | Ability to rapidly and inexpensively re-provision technological infrastructure |
| Device and Location Independence | Web browser access regardless of location or what device |
| Multi-tenancy | Enables sharing of resources and costs across a large pool of users |
| Reliability | Well-designed cloud computing is suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery |
| Scalability | On-Demand Resources |
| Maintenance | Applications are easier to maintain, everyone gets the updates at the same time |
Steps for moving to the cloud involve virtualizing application-based silos of servers, storage and network and moving to the cloud infrastructure of your choice, at the location of your choice. Some organizations venture further into the cloud computing paradigm and provision their own internal cloud to customers. But, how do you choose the right application to start with? How do you build in scalability? What security do you add and where? Cloud3Concepts can help you answer these important questions with our three-step process of Define, Identify, and Execute.
Define - Define your mission by stating the business objectives, reviewing the existing architecture and defining the desired end state.
Identify - Identify the tasks for consolidation, virtualization and automation.
Execute - Execute your plan to transform your data center into an IT service center, incrementally while aligning the entire organization to the new paradigm.
Cloud3Concepts's team of professionals can provide your company the extra edge with streamlined process, dependable delivery and subject matter experts to meet your services needs including: solution architecture, business analysis, project management and more. Engagements can be limited to project discovery and scope, or expand as requested, up to full implementation with documentation and training.