Cloud Use-Cases for IT Operations
April 23, 2010 - 12:49 pmSome common use-cases we’re seeing for the private cloud approach to infrastructure:
- Horizontally scaling, primarily of Web-based applications. Using variations of the LAMP or Ruby stacks these appear to be sites and portals engineered for horizontal scaling via HTTP load-balancing and loosely coupled application components.
- Specialized cluster-aware applications. A mixture of HPC, MPI, and Hadoop-based applications usually with an emphasis on research or batch processing.
- Traditional Enterprise applications – collaboration, file serving, directory services, primarily being delivered by Managed Service Providers.
Common deployment scenarios for private clouds in Enterprises are:
Key
Blue -> control boundary
Gold -> Monitoring/management point
Grey -> Managed instance/service
- Private cloud as flexible datacenter infrastructure
- Excess capacity via public infrastructure “cloud bursting”
- Pure cloud play with no “physical” hardware legacy
We’re looking forward to digging more into availability and performance measurement of the cloud fabric in an upcoming post.
