CLOUD COMPUTING PLANNING STAGE TACTICS BASIC INFORMATION

At the phase of cloud planning, it is necessary to make a detailed investigation on customer position and to analyze the problems and risks in cloud application both at present and in the future. After that, concrete approaches and plans can be drawn to ensure that customers can use cloud computing successfully to reach their business goals.

This phase includes some practicable planning steps in multiple orders listed as follows,

(1) Business Architecture Development
While capturing the organizational structures of enterprises, the business models also get the information on business process support.

As various business processes and relative networks in enterprise architecture are being set down one after another, gains and losses brought by relative paths in the business development process will also come into people’s understanding.

We categorize these to business interests and possible risks brought by cloud computing application from a business perspective.

(2) IT Architecture Development
It is necessary to identify the major applications needed to support enterprises business processes and the key technologies needed to support enterprise applications and data systems. Besides, cloud computing maturity models should be introduced and the analysis of technological reference models should be made, so as to provide help, advices and strategy guide for the design and realization of cloud computing mode in the enterprise architecture.

(3) Requirements on Quality of Service Development
Compared with other computing modes, the most distinguishing feature of cloud computing mode is that the requirements on quality of service (also called non-functional needs) should be rigorously defined beforehand, for example, the performance, reliability, security, disaster recovery, etc.

This requirement is a key factor in deciding whether a cloud computing mode application is successful or not and whether the business goal is reached; it is also an important  standard in measuring the quality of cloud computing service or the competence in establishing a cloud computing center.

(4) Transformation Plan Development
It is necessary to formulate all kinds of plans needed in the transformation from current business systems to the cloud computing modes, including the general steps, scheduling, quality guarantee, etc. Usually, an infrastructure service cloud cover different items such as infrastructure consolidation plan report, operation and maintenance management system plan, management process plan, application system transformation plan, etc.