Technology Infrastructure Architecture

Cloud Technology Architecture for smarter Enteprises.

Cloud infrastructures are being touted as the most efficient and elastic. IT infrastructures are continuously being transitioned to be more simplified and optimized through systematic rationalization and higher resource utilization. In fact, various kinds of unutilized and underutilized IT resources are collected from various locations, consolidated, and centralized in one place to accomplish automated and composed as per the situation warrants. Partitioning and provisioning, and de-provisioning are fully automated to enable dynamic resource sharing and recapture if not being used.  

 

With the addition of a slew of novel mechanisms, resource availability is guaranteed in any circumstances. Elasticity is being ensured through the runtime creation of new cloud resources, and once the purpose is served, all resources are auto terminated to save costs. The business users are provided with capabilities to leverage cloud infrastructure through informative and intuitive interfaces. Self-service is one of the key differentiators of cloud infrastructures. Several automated software solutions are introduced into any cloud environment to fulfill several manual operations. Capacity planning, for example, is one vital research topic to achieve dynamic capacity planning. Load balancing, job scheduling, and various routines are automated.  

 

References:

Raj, P (2013). Cloud Enterprise Architecture. CRC Press.  Retrieved from http://www.ittoday.info/Articles/Cloud_Enterprise_Architecture.pdf

 

Next-Gen Connected Cloud Infrastructures

 

Different sets of needs lead to many generics and specific cloud infrastructures being conceived, established, and leveraged over various networks and by an overwhelming array of devices and handsets.  

 

Hybrid cloud is one such grand model for establishing direct convectively between public and private clouds. Messages can be sent across, data can be exchanged, documents can be transmitted, and workload can be shared using the hybrid model. This model is all set to grow given the fact that emerging business, technical, societal, and ground realities and requirements would demand connected, integrated, and extended clouds. Separately public and private clouds are targeting a diverse set of businesses. But seamless and spontaneous connectivity between clouds guarantees a lot of decisive and deft things for innovators, investors, and institutions.  

 

The key technique for such clouds is cloud bursting, which can leverage computer and storage resources offered by other local or distant clouds. Private cloud users typically leverage cloud bursting quality of service levels. The simplicity of migrating applications and data between clouds is the driving force for connected clouds. 

 

References:

Hybrid Clouds. Retrieved from https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/hybrid-cloud

Hybrid Clouds with AWS. Extend AWS infrastructure and services on premises and at the edge.  Retrieved from https://aws.amazon.com/hybrid/