Ten enterprise applications that can be easily migrated to the public cloud

Casa and Video is an E-commerce site in Brazil, selling all kinds of household items, air conditioners, cameras and other electronic products, as well as beds, bathroom equipment and outdoor furniture. All of the site's business is in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud running, all the calculation, storage and multiple instances of the operation are load-balancing capacity.

Meanwhile, Netflix's streaming films and TV shows are being sold to its members in the Americas, Britannia and Ireland. The company also employs Amazon cloud services in its data centers around the world.

Netflix started out as a data center, but soon moved most of its data center operations to the public cloud, where peak demand often came at night, especially on weekends. If Netflix uses Amazon's closest regional data center to its users during peak demand, it is naturally the most logical.

The view was also expressed that these examples were exceptions and could not be the general rule of the Organization that adopted the public cloud in its core business. Factors such as data security, privacy, and the fear that their managed data will fall into the hands of rivals in the public cloud have been hampering the adoption of public clouds by many organizations.

At the same time, CEOs and CFOs are beginning to see the benefits of the public cloud's cash-for-use model, which will require CIOs and senior IT managers to decide what their organization should be and where to use the public cloud. Even some non-critical mission applications.

Fortunately, there are many applications in any organization that can completely avoid these concerns and can be easily migrated to the public cloud for implementation or trial. Here are 10 groups of "public cloud ready" applications.

1, development and testing

The first set of public cloud applications is the development and testing of applications. In the absence of virtualization, each application server and database server can each occupy a single physical server, that is, the server usage is only a poor 10%. Even with virtualization, servers may not be fully exploited because the amount of test data used is dwarfed by the amount of production data.

These development and test servers may use a variety of artificially fabricated test data, but the data can be easily migrated to the public cloud. Also, you only need to pay when you use the cloud service. Agile development Methodologies, code branching, and continuous integration generate a lot of code builds and code versions, all of which require a rapid convergence and release of a large number of applications and database servers in parallel. It is logical to migrate all these servers to the public cloud. Not only do you need to pay to use these public cloud services, but you don't have to worry too much about network latency, storage costs, and storage performance.

2. Development Platform Service

As organizations accept the DevOps principles, they will increasingly use design, framework and prototyping, aggregation, agile project management, automated test tools, and development platforms, etc. for continuous code integration. As mentioned above, these services belong to the public cloud, more conducive to programmers to organize these elements when needed, and release them when they are not needed.

Of course, it is unlikely that these services will store any sensitive enterprise internal data on the public cloud.

3. Training Service

Training servers are typically easy to set at the start of a training session, and then easily disassembled at the end of the training. And they are likely to maintain only man-made data rather than real data. In other words, they are naturally suited to the public cloud.

From the console, the cloud's preconfigured tools can set up or dismantle training servers in a public cloud within minutes. These tools are also ready to set up the Self Service option, and the various training organizations can service themselves.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)