Cloud computing scenarios
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Business Scenario Categories
Business Case
- Application Hosting / SaaS
- Backup and Storage
- Business Continuity Planning (Disaster Recovery)
- Content Delivery
- E-Commerce
- Games (e.g. MMORPG)
- High-Performance Computing
- Massive Updating Services
- Media Hosting
- Rapid Prototyping
- Search Engines
- Social Networking
- Thin Client Back-end
- Web Hosting
[References: Amazon Case Studies]
Organization
General description:
- Start-up company
- Enterprise
- State-owned enterprise
Compliance
- IT regulations (data ownership, data protection)
- Industry-specific regulations
Business Objectives
- Foster innovation
- Reduce time to market
- Cost efficiency
- Increase user base
- Online collaboration
- ...
Strategy
- Vendor lock-in, provider dependency
Demand
- Expected demand: seasonal
- Expected demand: batch job
- Expected demand: temporary effect (e.g. Olympic Games Website)
- Unexpected demand: temporary effect (digg effect)
Application
- Database
- Programming language and runtime environment
- Load-balancing and redundancy mechanisms
Non-Functional Requirements
(obviously tied to above mentioned criteria)
- Security
- High availability
- Reliability
- Scalability
- ...
Finance
- Firm's liquidity
