Cloud computing is dominating IT industry dialog as more organizations look to the cloud as a way of reducing costs and maximizing the return on their technology investments. While the term cloud computing may be fresh, its core benefits have been part of the IT landscape for decades.
Like any technology,
the cloud has collected its share of
advocates and adversaries; discussions
have centered around Cloud security, Cloud reliability,
Cloud scalability and Cloud interoperability. These
issues are of utmost importance to business
and IT decision makers, and they bring
to the forefront the growing need for
sound architecture that reflects the
organization’s overarching business goals.
Increasingly, the answer is an architecture
that can expose and consume services
interacting with the cloud, as well as
deploy and govern applications within
the cloud.
Complexity is further
bred by the fact that most organizations
are looking to modernize and migrate
existing applications to the cloud rather than starting anew.
As they embark on this latest transformational
iteration of IT infrastructure, it is
important to ensure that whether a cloud
is public or private, it meets expectations
for easy, scalable access to computing
resources and IT services without undue
development risk.
With automated governance from WebLayers, organizations can more clearly understand and truly realize the benefits of developing and employing cloud infrastructures.
WebLayers
automated governance for Cloud Computing
helps to:
Ensure adherence to established processes and policies for the modernization of applications that deliver or consume new services into or sourced from the cloud.
Promote or enforce the use of best practices so that existing applications that have migrated to a cloud infrastructure can meet reliability, security, performance and cost-saving objectives.
Provide a framework for eliminating web service redundancies as offerings proliferate in the cloud.
