Cloud consulting is the process where an organization leverages cloud consultants to build, operate, manage and maintain an optimal cloud environment. Cloud consulting accelerates business growth and innovation, drives agility, transforms operational efficiency and ensures performance and security in the cloud.
Cloud migration is the process of moving applications and data from one location, often a company’s private, on-site (“on-premises”) servers to a public cloud provider’s servers, but also between different clouds. The main cloud migration benefits include reducing IT costs and improving performance, but there are security, convenience, and other advantages, too.
Moving data from on-premises servers to a cloud provider’s servers, which are typically housed in very large, highly secure buildings.
Virtualization, which enables IT resources to be abstracted from their underlying physical hardware and pooled into unbounded resource pools of computing, storage, memory and networking capacity that can then portioned among multiple virtual machines, containers or other virtualized IT infrastructure elements. By removing the constraints of physical hardware, virtualization enables maximum utilization of hardware, allows hardware to be shared efficiently across multiple users and applications and makes possible the scalability, agility and elasticity of the cloud
Many businesses opt to keep some of their resources in their on-premises datacenter and move a portion of them to the cloud, creating a “hybrid cloud.” Benefits include maximizing the value of existing on-premises datacenter equipment, as well as allowing businesses in certain industries to meet industry and governmental compliance requirements.
Now that cloud computing is so common, many businesses are using multiple cloud, sometimes due to mergers and acquisitions and they sometimes choose to move resources between their public clouds using cloud to cloud migration. This type of migration is also useful when an organization wants to take advantage of different products, services, and pricing from cloud platforms.
It comprises of a series of strategies/practices to analyze, track, and manage cloud-based services and applications. It provides automation, visibility, and control that organizations need to monitor and optimize website and application performance.
Every business needs to ensure that its websites and web services remain highly accessible while being secure, as well as optimized. Cloud monitoring tools help to identify minor and large-scale hardware failures and security gaps so that administrators and developers can take corrective action before problems affect user experiences.
To ensure that the health and performance of the database management system of a business remain intact is a key requirement for business continuity. Cloud monitoring solutions actively monitor cloud database resources, tracking processes, queries, and availability of services to ensure the accuracy and reliability of database management systems, regardless of the number of instances and how they are deployed.
Is a vital component of any cloud
monitoring solution and plays a critical role in keeping applications running smoothly and efficiently. APM measures application availability and performance, providing development teams the tools they need to quickly troubleshoot issues in an application’s environment. APM solutions help an enterprise improve user experience, meet application and user service level agreements (SLAs), minimize downtime, and lower overall operational costs.
Hybrid cloud environments combine the use of private on- premises infrastructure and public cloud services. This enables an organization to keep sensitive elements of their business—such as client data and transaction processes—on-premises while running other applications and services in highly scalable, reliable cloud environments.
Multi-cloud environments are similar to a hybrid cloud in that they use the use of an on-premises solution in combination with cloud-based computing environments, but the added complexity is of using multiple public cloud providers.
Combines strategies, techniques, tools, and best practices to help reduce cloud costs, find the most cost-effective way to run your applications in the cloud environment, and maximize business value. FinOps, a blend of Finance and DevOps, is a financial management practice for cloud that helps organizations maximize business value in their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Many organizations approach cloud cost optimization strategy and implementation by employing a cross-functional FinOps team—one with members from IT, finance and engineering—to bring financial accountability to the cloud. Three Phases of the FinOps Journey:
Organizations need accurate and up-to-date visibility of their cloud spending to make suitable decisions on allocation, benchmarking, budgeting and forecasting. Having detailed allocation information of cloud spending enables correct chargeback and showback as well. FinOps teams need to know whether they are staying within budget, making accurate forecasts and achieving targets for ROI.
The second phase is about optimizing the cloud footprint, for which there are multiple ways. On-demand capacity is the most expensive way. Teams can also optimize the cloud environment by using automation to right-size environments and turn off unused resources. In many cases, providers offer discounts for advanced reservation planning and future commitments.
Organizations enter the third phase when they can continuously measure metrics—such as speed, quality and cost—against business objectives.
Be clear about the future state of your business and risk-based security program. Establish cloud security at every layer of the stack to enable your business goals.
Integrate native cloud security controls, implement secure-by-design methodology and establish security orchestration and automation to define and enforce your enterprise cloud security program.
Through centralized control and visibility, your enterprise will be able to monitor and adapt to the landscape of threat. Detect and contain attacks by orchestrating effective incident response throughout the organization.
(also known as an internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a cloud computing environment in which all hardware and software resources are exclusively dedicated to, and accessible only by, a single customer. Private cloud is a single-tenant environment, meaning all resources are accessible to one customer only—this is referred to as isolated access. Apart from single-tenant design, private cloud is based on the same technologies as other clouds—technologies that enable the customer to provision and configure virtual servers and computing resources on demand in order to quickly and easily scale in response to spikes in traffic, to implement redundancy for high availability and to optimize utilization of resources overall.
A cloud native application consists of discrete, reusable components that are known as microservices that are designed to integrate into any cloud environment.
These microservices act as building blocks and are often packaged in containers.
Microservices work together to constitute an application, and yet each can be independently scaled, continuously improved, and quickly iterated through automation and orchestration processes.
The flexibility of microservices adds to the agility and continuous improvement of cloud- native applications.
Is a fully managed, server-less platform for developing and hosting web applications at scale. You may select from several popular languages, libraries, and frameworks to develop your apps, and then let App Engine take care of provisioning servers and scaling the app instances based on demand.