Your company is an application service provider that hosts customer applications and data in your data center. The entire infrastructure is client-server based and you have begun to assess the risk of moving your web applications to a cloud-based infrastructure. During this phase you are required to provide the value of corporate assets involved.How should you assess these corporate assets?
You have been approached by a company to recommend a service model given the following economic drivers:✑ 65% of developer effort is spent on maintenance✑ There is a lack of reusable development components✑ Multiple development environments are being instantiated without standardization✑ There is a need for software minimum customizationIn addition, developers would like independent control to test and provision their own environments.What is the most appropriate service model to recommend?
An appliances manufacturing company that has been in business for many decades is concerned about the slowing growth in their business. They feel that this is mainly due to not being able to retain customers.Which industry force and related technology need might be impacting this?
A mobile company has processes in place for service support. One process facilitates collaboration and is a placeholder for functional requests; another process contains metadata on systems, network, and software. What types of processes are these?
As a cloud architect you are helping your company plan for cloud services and you are working with a diverse cloud team. You have targeted four key initial services and you have highlighted the following considerations for each service:- Use overall management that maps dependencies across the service- Define what metrics need to be collected for chargeback or showback- Specify provider's responsibility in meeting performance service levelsYour cloud team asks you which service area each of these considerations will most likely map to. What should be your response?
A line of business (LOB) has been using a public cloud and is seeking services from the internal IT department. The LOB has requested an SLA for each service.Why would the LOB make this request?
