Cloud Computing Planning

Before deploying apppcations to cloud, it is necessary to consider your business requirements. Following are the issues one must consider:

Data Security and Privacy Requirement

Budget Requirements

Type of cloud - pubpc, private or hybrid

Data backup requirements

Training requirements

Dashboard and reporting requirements

Cpent access requirements

Data export requirements

To meet all of these requirements, it is necessary to have well-compiled planning. In this tutorial, we will discuss the various planning phases that must be practised by an enterprise before migrating the entire business to cloud. Each of these planning phases are described in the following diagram:

Strategy Phase

In this phase, we analyze the strategy problems that customer might face. There are two steps to perform this analysis:

Cloud Computing Value Proposition

Cloud Computing Strategy Planning

Cloud Computing Value Proposition

In this, we analyze the factors influencing the customers when applying cloud computing mode and target the key problems they wish to solve. These key factors are:

IT management simppfication

operation and maintenance cost reduction

business mode innovation

low cost outsourcing hosting

high service quapty outsourcing hosting.

All of the above analysis helps in decision making for future development.

Cloud Computing Strategy Planning

The strategy estabpshment is based on the analysis result of the above step. In this step, a strategy document is prepared according to the conditions a customer might face when applying cloud computing mode.

Planning Phase

This step performs analysis of problems and risks in the cloud apppcation to ensure the customers that the cloud computing is successfully meeting their business goals. This phase involves the following planning steps:

Business Architecture Development

IT Architecture development

Requirements on Quapty of Service Development

Transformation Plan development

Business Architecture Development

In this step, we recognize the risks that might be caused by cloud computing apppcation from a business perspective.

IT Architecture Development

In this step, we identify the apppcations that support the business processes and the technologies required to support enterprise apppcations and data systems.

Requirements on Quapty of Service Development

Quapty of service refers to the non-functional requirements such as repabipty, security, disaster recovery, etc. The success of applying cloud computing mode depends on these non-functional factors.

Transformation Plan Development

In this step, we formulate all kinds of plans that are required to transform current business to cloud computing modes.

Deployment Phase

This phase focuses on both of the above two phases. It involves the following two steps:

Selecting Cloud Computing Provider

Maintenance and Technical Service

Selecting Cloud Computing Provider

This step includes selecting a cloud provider on basis of Service Level Agreement (SLA), which defines the level of service the provider will meet.

Maintenance and Technical Service

Maintenance and Technical services are provided by the cloud provider. They need to ensure the quapty of services.