MANAGING CLOUD COMPUTING - A Life Cycle Approach

Gerard Conway, Edward Curry

2012

Abstract

Cloud computing has the promise of significant benefits that include reduced costs, improved service provisioning, and a move to a pay-per-use model. However, there also are many challenges to successfully delivering cloud-based services; including security, data ownership, interoperability, service maturity and return on investment. These challenges need to be understood and managed before attempting to take advantage of what the cloud has to offer. In this paper we introduce a nine-step cloud life cycle that can be used for both the migration and the ongoing management of public, cloud-based services. A consortium of organizations using an open-innovation approach developed the life cycle. This paper describes each step of the life cycle in terms of the key challenges faced, and the recommended activities, with resultant outputs, needed to overcome them.

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in Harvard Style

Conway G. and Curry E. (2012). MANAGING CLOUD COMPUTING - A Life Cycle Approach . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 198-207. DOI: 10.5220/0003928401980207


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Gerard Conway and Edward Curry},
title={MANAGING CLOUD COMPUTING - A Life Cycle Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={198-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003928401980207},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - MANAGING CLOUD COMPUTING - A Life Cycle Approach
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Conway G.
AU - Curry E.
PY - 2012
SP - 198
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0003928401980207