Cloud Bursting

This SME is a small start-up but is envisioning to be number 1 in its market, globally. It will need cloud service to do so, and as per different technical, business, risk mitigation and risk reasons it is working on architecting a hybrid ecosystem where several major as well as niche CSPs will be involved. However, all CSPs define their definitions and legal terms differently which makes it hard to create a clear landscape of what rights and obligation the SME has towards the respective CSP, and what rights and obligations it can arrange for with its own customers and end-users.

This SME is migrating its infrastructure to IaaS of a major CSP. Being a software company itself does not necessarily mean to have the necessary knowledge for migrating to the SaaS. And, to start with, in order to provide a good proposal and business model based on subscription fees this SME needs to know what kind of different duration period are applicable, and what the financial, technical and operational consequences are.

A European SME who has formally used CRM SaaS to keep track of its customer relationship management and sales cycle would like to switch certain part of its data to another account in the same CRM SaaS, and – when that did not work out – to switch that data to another CSP. This in turn requires the ability to migrate data between different environments or providers. However, the former CRM SaaS did not specify anything on data portability, data format, what data would exactly be possible to migrate, and what not, or whether metadata would be part of that.

There are more than 1800 local governments across Japan, each of which has its own servers and IT sta . A secondary goal of the Kasumigaseki cloud is to provide a hybrid cloud environment. In addition to the Kasumigaseki cloud, the Japanese central government has decided to group local governments at the prefecture level. Each prefecture will have a private cloud and a connection to the Kasumigaseki hybrid cloud. Internal tasks and some data will be hosted in the prefecture’s private cloud, while other data will be stored locally.

An online retailer needs to develop a new Web 2.0 storefront application, but does not want to burden its IT sta  and existing resources. The company chooses a cloud provider to deliver a cloud-based development environment with hosted developer tooling and a source code repository. Another cloud provider is chosen to provide a testing environment so that the new application can interact with many di different types of machines and huge workloads.