Design
This cloud characteristic often causes an organization's cloud design to not need a one-to-one transfer of servers and services.
What is Resource Pooling?
A design team should include members from each organization when implementing this cloud deployment models.
What is a Community Cloud?
Transitioning from Microsoft's cloud solution to Amazon's cloud solution is an example of this KIND of migration.
What is cloud to cloud?
This is the easiest and fastest migration type.
What is rehost? (lift and shift)
When transitioning from a traditional IT solution to a cloud deployment, companies can expect an increase in these type of expenses.
What is Operational Expenditures? OpEx
It is considered this migration type when an application is decommissioned and not replaced.
What is Retire?
This is the first of three phases of cloud migration.
What is planning?
During the early phases of cloud migration you would typically utilize this. Which is a small-scale project to test logistics, prove the value of the migration, and reveal any weaknesses in the deployment.
What is a pilot program?
This term refers to the complete deployment of a service, beginning with the standing up of a virtual machine all the way to the point of the user gaining access to the fully-configured system?
What is Orchestration?
This is considered to be one of the earliest steps in the cloud design process.
What is a cloud assessment?
Frequently we use this type of migration where some applications move to the cloud with no issues, some will need some slight modifications, and some will be retained on-premise.
What is Hybrid?
The most common KIND of migration. Associated with transitioning to the cloud.
What is On-Premise to Cloud?
This establishes whether a cloud deployment provides value to the business. Value can be defined as a cost savings, a time savings or more.
What is proof of value?
You would perform this KIND of migration in the event that a cloud solution is not bringing value to your organization.
What is Cloud to On-Premise?
In the cloud design phase, this person will provide two-way communication, allowing stakeholders to bring questions to the cloud team and also allowing the cloud team to communicate outward to the stakeholders
Who is Point of Contact?
This migration type is used when no modification of an application is required and the application is cloud-ready.
What is Rehosting? Lift and Shift
An organization considers this migration type when they learn that their application is not cloud-ready and the cost to modify the application for the cloud is more than the organization is willing to spend.
What is Repurchase? (Drop and Shop)
This confirms that the functionality of the deployment is successful.
What is proof of concept?
When transitioning from a traditional IT solution to a cloud deployment, companies can expect a decrease in these type of expenses.
What is Capital Expenditures? CapEx
This emerging technology has fully embraced the cloud model. Examples include home automation which includes alarms, and automated lighting. Larger scale examples are found in agriculture for water conservation.
What is Internet of Things? (IoT)
This term refers to computer systems that are likely to operate for a very long time. Exactly how long a time is measured by percentages of a year. The general standard is approximately 99% of a year.
What is High Availability?
This is the term given to immense quantities of data. It is NOT synonymous with the cloud but can be stored in the cloud.
What is Big Data?
This is the second phase of cloud migration. It includes the actual transfer of data, services, servers, etc., to the cloud.
What is Implementation?
This is a cloud solution similar to the on-premise solution that provides a virtual desktop infrastructure.
What is Desktop as a Service? DaaS
This is the final phase of a cloud migration, it helps ensure the cloud is running cost-effectively and safely.
What is Optimization and Security?
Cloud design is sometimes impacted by laws and standards. They could include things like HIPPA, FERPA, or Sarbanes-Oxley.
What are industry regulations?
This is a deliberate study of whether IT technology (in this case, cloud technology) is being used to its fullest potential.
What is gap analysis?
This cloud service level is concerned with the ram and processing specifications.
What is compute?
This migration type relies on some modification or optimization of the application in order to take advantage of cloud benefits.
What is Replatforming? Lift-Tinker-Shift
These individuals must be considered during cloud design. They have their own specific concerns, their own ability to influence the overall project, and their own specific levels of interest.
What are key stakeholders?
This is virtualization at the operating system level such that a single operating system is partitioned and used by multiple applications.
What are containers?
An organization can perform this to establish whether or not a deployment provides time savings to the organization.
What is proof of value?
We consider this migration type when an application is more suited for a traditional deployment versus a cloud deployment.
What is Retain?
This defines a period of time within which services must be restored following a disaster.
What is recovery time objective? RTO
This migration type is where an application will be completely re-architected in order to become cloud-ready.
What is Refactoring? (Rip and Replace)
This term is used when we try to make sure no single failure can bring down an entire service.
What is Redundancy?
These are success criteria that we use to measure whether specific objectives were met.
What are Key Performance Indicators? KPI's
This component of Cloud-Native Applications improve responsiveness, scalability, and agility?
What are microservices?
This term is used in disaster recovery, it is a measure of the age of files to be recovered.
What is recovery point objective?
When a business compares its current results against industry results, which then indicates if the business seems to be well aligned with the rest of the industry.
What are benchmarks?
In cloud services, this term refers to the elimination of the human role in management tasks.
What is Autonomous Environment?
If deploying this cloud model the design process is completely under control of the organization.
What is a private cloud?