Building and Configuring Enterprise Cloud Services_3,2

Abstract

Advanced enterprises must stay competitive by continuing to invest in compelling and attractive new products for the market. These new business cases must be justifiable and set apart from their traditional cost system to adopt the utility pricing model common in Cloud services. Although cost and pricing are two significant financial challenges that SPs must deal with in terms of customers’ experience and expectations, they are not alone. The pressing issues on the technology front also cause unavoidable impacts to SPs, they include the effect of SOA strategies, impact of disaster recovery plans, data management policies, and risk profiles for mitigation strategies that are common to typical enterprise processes. Depending upon the market size of the enterprises, the complexity level of their management systems varies. However, regardless of the amount of money enterprises invest in these management systems, they must be able to answer challenges from service levels, privacy matters, compliances, data ownership, and data mobility in order to fully participate in a Cloud ecosystem. Enterprise s that are heavily technology-dependent must also be sensitive to the timing for introducing new methodologies or technologies to their target markets. This can avoid unproductive results caused by either a premature or late deployment of a new or updated service.