Enterprise Cloud Services Architecture

Enterprise Cloud Services Architecture
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GVB Subrahmanyam


Moving from conventional enterprise architecture services to cloud-based enterprise architecture services

Enterprise services are built on applications that are running within the enterprises to fulfill the business demands. In the recent past, the concept of services in a cloud environment gained significance with services being hosted in a common cloud environment within the enterprise or outside the enterprise. In this article, I described the various steps involved in moving services from an enterprise level to cloud-based environment as part of a cloud implementation.




Traditionally an organization's Enterprise Services Architectures are considered in terms of Business Architecture, Information Systems Architecture (Data and Application Architecture) and Technology Architecture. [1] A variety of enterprise services architectures such as core services, infrastructure services, and technology services are supported by these levels of architecture. Core services are those services that will fulfill the business functionality of the application or of an organization whereas infrastructure services are those services that fulfill support infrastructure such as security. The third type of services, technology services, will satisfy the technical, i.e., nonfunctional services such as scalability and interoperability. Recently Cloud Services started playing a significant role in enterprise services to fulfill the alignment of IT and business. This article provides information on how cloud services can be leveraged as part of enterprise architecture services.