Migrating To The Cloud

Abstract

The current study focuses on the processes and facts associated with migrating to the cloud. For this, the study reveals the typical requirements of the system that the user must consider before moving any application to the cloud. Moreover, it discussed the requirements of consulting for any company before proceeding with cloud migrating along with the specific skills are that can be identified in these consultants. Further, the study sheds light on the characteristics of resource utilization that can be monitored before any application can be migrated to the cloud. Regarding this, the training requirements for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solution integrations have been identified for further evaluation of the application migration process.

System requirements for considering cloud applications

Moving applications through cloud migration is a significant risk that cannot be justified in most of the cases. For this, it is required to consider some system requirements before moving any such applications to the cloud.

Network needs

In case there is more space requirement for high bandwidth of application, it will not be valid for the applicable for moving it to cloud unless all the associated systems could also be transferred to the same space (Evangelinou et al. 2018). It is better for the user if the application is kept along with data transfer and is not kept between the screen and the application.

Scaling needs

The possibility of moving an application to the cloud can be measured by its need for scaling. Those applications that need scaling can be easily moved to the cloud by providing resources on-demand. For this, cloud providers may provide facilities scheduling additional capacities for storing applications with high loads.

Storage

This is an essential factor for considering the moving of applications to the cloud as some of the applications may not work well due to storage problems. Such applications play better after moving them to the cloud, as this can solve the problem in a cheap way and is an application for most of the applications having demanding storage requirements (Fahmideh & Beydoun, 2018).

Publicly usable

The moving of applications to the cloud is dependent on its use by the public outside the limits of the user. It can give significant benefits by creating separate criteria for the internal network and the application of the user. Moreover, it also removes the network needs from that network of the user.

Architecture

All the applications cannot be applied in the server and run by the user, as some servers may depend on various other systems for their running process. In case the application is entirely dependent on commodity technologies and standards, it can be moved to the cloud.

Considering consultation for cloud migration and skill requirements in a consultant

It is required to consult with a consultant before considering a cloud migration due to some critical reasons. It can enable companies to ensure that they are successful in the process. Regarding this, three key reasons can be highlighted for the same.

Expertise

With the increased adoption of cloud in the business world, there has been an increased emerging of various cloud consultants who can provide expert advice regarding the use of the cloud for different purposes. Many companies have developed for providing architecture regarding cloud infrastructures so that maximum efficiency, accuracy, and security can be maintained (Erturk, 2017). These consultants deploy engineers for this purpose, which have been certified as experts for providing cloud services to customers.

Nexus

The architecture of cloud solutions can be considered more as an art rather than science, as this can be developed through constant research. It can only be done by the cloud experts or the consultants, who can provide more on cloud solutions through solving various unique issues of their clients (Storey, 2017). This makes it essential for a company to consult with cloud consultants before proceeding with the same.

Resources

The requirement of resources can be determined based on the complexity and size of any company, which can make use of a well-architecture migration process. The act would take a broad span of time, which is not always possible through deploying the internal technical staff of the company (Qu et al. 2018). For this, external consultants are required, who can be hired to help in accelerating the migration process.

For consulting with a cloud consultant, some essential skills are required in the consultant, so that the work can be done successfully by different companies. These are:

• Having expert knowledge and experience in working with SaaS vendors, cloud providers, and others
• Capable of identifying the difference between customization and SaaS configuration
• Having knowledge of the configuration and implementation of cloud features
• Capable of figuring out migration approach in respect of on-prem

Characteristics of resource utilization for cloud application

Some resource utilization characteristics can be monitored before moving any application to the cloud, which can be briefly described below:

Capturing and querying different traces and events apart from aggregate data

It is required for capturing data from the raw transactions, which is vital in different cloud employments, in which requests are located through various dynamic components (Fahmideh & Beydoun, 2018). Identification of any problems and bottlenecks is one of the characteristics of resource utilization for capturing the relation among the used components in the cloud system.

Monitoring and visualizing connections established among infrastructure, apps, and sites

With upgrades in the work environment with the help of cloud systems, there are also increased problems of complexities in the connections among different types of components, including apps, load balancers, microservices, and many more (Erturk, 2017). With the process of cloud monitoring, it is characterized by the traces of connections that transactions have for connecting all the components for the work process.

Pricing through cloud awareness

The pricing required for monitoring cloud solutions can be developed based on the host for making on-premise installations. In some cases, this may not facilitate accommodation for developing cloud architectures. Leveraging various cloud monitoring solutions can be worked out through ensuring the pricing for the solution.

Capability of scaling

This is associated with monitoring cloud solutions so that they can be measured with an increasing scale. Traditionally scaling is done through managing spreadsheets for recording serials numbers, which is not relevant in dynamic cloud situations (Evangelinou et al. 2018). It can be done through dynamic infrastructure based on the cloud.

SaaS architecture

The benefits of authentic SaaS architecture are associated with providing some more services to scale cloud monitoring. This is effective in managing, updating, and maintaining the online infrastructure that is issue and hassle-free.

Training requirements for a SaaS solution integration, a PaaS application migration, and an IaaS application migration

There are requirements for training for SaaS solution because of the following:

• This can be taken off directly by the users by making quite low investments
• It is associated with administrative work at its minimum
• The use of SaaS is having a guarantee of being user-friendly and reliable
• It has the opportunity of a growing platform of learning for the users according to their requirements
• The service providers providing the functions of SaaS is responsible for the entire technology (Yusuf et al. 2018)

There are requirements for training for PaaS solution because of the following:

• It has a practical application ecosystem for maintaining stack dependency in the Linux containers
• It provides services that are used up by application by deploying and building different components
• Various deployment architectures can be deployed regarding this for maintaining cloud monitoring of applications (Ravi, 2017)

There are requirements for training for IaaS solution because of the following:

• Helpful in connecting with specific cloud infrastructures that can authenticate with the application with its sources in the cloud through the use of specific credentials
• It can display the application list for migration extracted from the source, from which selection can be appropriately made for the applications to be migrated
• IaaS can be used in launching service instances for maintaining the cloud infrastructure in order to host the application that has been migrated
• It deploys the already exported applications along with other specific configurations to some target instance for maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Various configurations associated with the application can be discovered that have been selected for migrating them to the cloud. Configuration can be done by providing details of the required application in the target situations, which one complete can initiate the migration process of the selected application.

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