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Bringing Viability to Service-Oriented Enterprises in Cloud Ecosystems

Authors:
Nizami Jafarov
Edward Lewis
Gary Millar

Keywords: cloud computing; enterprise architecture; technological innovations; uncertainty management.

Abstract:
Cloud Computing is the next evolution of computing systems, which shifts the whole application infrastructure away from old monolithic architectural models to more open, interoperable, modular, reusable and agile building blocks. Many Enterprises realise the benefits of Cloud Computing and position it as the Information Technology (IT) outsourcing solution, which is cheaper to operate and maintain. However, Cloud Computing is not just a technology behind an infrastructure, but also a new model, which needs to be properly merged with legacy paradigms of an Enterprise. In our work, we are focused on the challenges Cloud Computing is bringing to an Enterprise along with the promising benefits. The central issue in the transformation of IT infrastructure of an Enterprise into the Cloud is the uncertainty it is able to bring to a well established Business Architecture (BA) and Business Models (BM) of a system. This disruptive uncertainty, which can be driven by an introduction of new technologies or modification of already integrated ones, needs to be addressed properly and governed accurately to guarantee a viability of an Enterprise. This work proposes solutions to the issues an Enterprise might face in its Cloud transformation initiative.

Pages: 118 to 122

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-237-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012