Cloud Design Goals
Cloud Native versus Traditional Applications
Cloud Native vs Traditional IT Most Cloud Platforms are trending towards breaking down monolithic services into ‘micro’ or discrete services. An example would …
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Cloud Design GoalsKey Cloud Design Goal: Redundancy, High Availability
Redundancy, Availability, Continuity, and Disaster Recovery A key benefit of virtualising the infrastructure is to construct a platform which provides best-of-…
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Cloud Design GoalsPhases and Categories of TOGAF and building robust Architectures
Architectures are iterative creations. They are not sequential, waterfall processes. This obviously means that iterative methodologies such as Agile-Scrum are …
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Cloud Design GoalsTOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’
TOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’ Definitions: TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework Continuum: A continuous extent or succession from a starting p…
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Cloud Design GoalsScaling and Cloud Services
Scaling from an IT resource perspective is the ability of the IT resource to handle increased or decreased usage demands. The following are types of scaling: H…
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Cloud Design GoalsMapping Cloud Characteristics to Business Issues
Mapping Cloud Characteristics to Business Issues As organizations move critical compute, storage, and application systems to cloud providers, several additiona…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Strategy based on Business, IT and Data Strategy
Why move applications and IT to the Cloud? Firms have a Business Strategy. IT must support that strategy. Within IT there should be a Data Strategy. The Data S…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Management Systems and Disaster Recovery Best Practices
CLOUD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS A key objective of a cloud management system, indeed of a Cloud platform in general, is to provide the customer a portal (usually web-…
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Cloud Design GoalsBest practices – Security, Automation, Monitoring
Operational Transformation Best Practices Based on lessons learned and experience from across the cloud industry, the following best practices should be consid…
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