Cloud Computing And Integration
Cloud computing consists of hardware and software resources made available on the Internet as managed third-party services, in a pay-per-use model , offering scalability and close alignment to actual demand. The core reasons to adopt a cloud model would be:
- It’s perceived simplicity
- Faster time-to-market and
- Cost effectiveness
Cloud services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Some simple instances where a cloud model would be useful:
- To temporarily augment your internal capacity for specific needs
- To offload heavy-duty background processes that consume extensive compute cycles and memory like archivals, batch processes etc.
- To set-up development and test environments on a need basis for projects
- To deploy simple web services over the cloud to be accessed by different lines of business
With a dedicated Centre of Excellence (CoE), Torry Harris offers cloud Integration services that are primarily in the consulting and project implementation space:
- Aggregate and evaluate services from the different external Cloud providers
- Assist in outlining a Cloud Strategy & roadmap for Cloud adoption
- Enable clients to integrate or build proprietary SaaS services into their business
- Application development and management services for third-party PaaS offerings
- Migration to and integration of Cloud services
- Plan, design, build & deploy Private and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure
- Connect, operate and ensure interoperability between private and commercial clouds
- Ownership of SLAs and management of the cloud set-up
- Management of Cloud based applications