Cloud computing

The Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) managers, business decision makers, application architects and application developers understand the hybrid cloud computing deployment model and how it can be used to solve business challenges rapidly and cost effectively.
 
Hybrid cloud enables cloud service customers to leverage the wide ranging capabilities of public cloud service providers while using private cloud deployment for more sensitive applications and data.
 
This guide details strategic and tactical activities for decision makers - covering all the essential technical considerations for hybrid cloud deployment including integration, connectivity, governance, management, security and privacy.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Web Application Hosting describes vendor-neutral best practices for hosting web applications using cloud computing. The architectural elements described in this paper are needed to instantiate a web application hosting environment using private, public, or hybrid cloud deployment models.
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Cloud computing and cloud services are often considered for both existing and new web application hosting environments. This is in part driven by the frequency that web applications are required. It also occurs because cloud elasticity and scalability naturally lends itself to the needs of a web application hosting environment.
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This reference architecture provides a detailed view of the components, subcomponents and relationships in a cloud-based web application hosting architecture.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services was written as practical reference to help IT architects and IT security professionals architect, install, and operate the information security components of solutions built using cloud services.
 
Many cloud services are now available covering infrastructure, platform and application capabilities. Building business solutions using these cloud services requires a clear understanding of the available security services, components and options, allied to a clear architecture which provides for the complete lifecycle of the solutions, covering development, deployment and operations.
 
This whitepaper introduces best practices for architecting the security of cloud service solutions.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Mobile describes vendor-neutral best practices for hosting the services and components required to support mobile apps using cloud computing.
 
The architectural elements described in this paper are needed to instantiate mobile hosting environments using a private, a public, or a hybrid cloud deployment model.
 
Cloud capabilities support the lifecycle of mobile applications that are deployed to employee or customer devices and provide managed access to back-end business applications and enterprise data sources. These solutions allow companies to leverage emerging mobile technologies to reinvent relationships by engaging users anywhere and anytime the context is relevant.
 
This guide describes common architectures proven successful in numerous enterprise deployments of mobile apps.

Cloud Customer Architecture for IoT is a reference architecture for supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud computing.
 
IoT is one of the most exciting and most dynamic areas of IT at the present time. IoT involves the linking of physical entities (“things”) with IT systems that derive information about or from those things which can be used to drive a wide variety of applications and services.
 
The cloud components of the IoT reference architecture are positioned within a three-tier architecture pattern comprising edge, platform, and enterprise tiers. The cloud components, subcomponents, and relationships are discussed in detail. Considerations are discussed for meeting scale, safety, reliability, and privacy requirements.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 
IT environments are now fundamentally hybrid in nature – devices, systems, and people are spread across the globe, and at the same time virtualized. Achieving integration across this ever-changing environment is a significant challenge. This paper explores common architecture patterns seen in enterprises tackling this issue.
 
Hybrid integration can be looked at from many perspectives including application, data, and infrastructure. This whitepaper positions hybrid integration from an application perspective, and presents the reference architecture as a seamless integration from cloud to on-premises for events, APIs, and data.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 
IT environments are now fundamentally hybrid in nature – devices, systems, and people are spread across the globe, and at the same time virtualized. Achieving integration across this ever-changing environment is a significant challenge. This paper explores common architecture patterns seen in enterprises tackling this issue.
 
Hybrid integration can be looked at from many perspectives including application, data, and infrastructure. This whitepaper positions hybrid integration from an application perspective, and presents the reference architecture as a seamless integration from cloud to on-premises for events, APIs, and data.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation across the business.
 
This cloud reference architecture was written for enterprise Information Technology (IT) and business decision makers to assist in understanding the technical capabilities and integration requirements necessary to deliver Enterprise Social Collaboration solutions. It is a vendor-neutral and best practices approach to describe the flows and relationships between business capabilities, functional areas, and architectural components delivered as a cloud solution.
 
This whitepaper discusses how social collaboration solutions can be applied to different industries and aligned with key business initiatives.

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce describes how to support e-Commerce solutions using cloud computing. The reference architecture contains a detailed view of the components, subcomponents and relationships for a cloud-based e-Commerce solution.
 
This whitepaper describes the flows and relationships between business capabilities and architectural components for e-Commerce applications that use cloud computing infrastructure, platforms and/or services. The elements of the architecture are used to instantiate an e-Commerce system using private, public, or hybrid cloud deployment models. Applications comprising the core components may be delivered as a service, from on-premises, or hosted.
 
A runtime scenario is outlined with deployment

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics describes the architectural elements and cloud components needed to build out big data and analytics solutions.
 
Big data analytics and cloud computing are a top priority for CIOs. Harnessing the value and power of big data and cloud computing can give your company a competitive advantage, spark new innovations, and increase revenue. Many companies are experimenting and iterating with different cloud configurations as a way to understand and refine requirements for their big data analytics solutions without upfront capital investment.
 
This whitepaper includes proven architecture patterns that have been deployed in successful enterprise projects and a description of capabilities offered by cloud providers.

Cloud Customer Architecture for API Management is an introduction to API Management and the architecture elements of an effective API Management Platform.
 
An API (Application Programming Interface) exposes defined business assets, data, or services for public consumption. APIs allow companies to open up data and services to create innovative channel applications that drive digital transformation. An effective API Management Platform provides a layer of controlled and secure self-service access to these core business assets for reuse.
 
This whitepaper describes the lifecycle approach to creating, running, managing and securing APIs. It covers the principles and characteristics of selecting an API Management Platform, as well as runtime

The Cloud Data Management Interface defines the functional interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the Cloud. As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of the cloud storage offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in them. In addition, metadata can be set on containers and their contained data elements through this interface.
 
This interface is also used by administrative and management applications to manage containers, accounts, security access and monitoring/billing information, even for storage that is accessible by other protocols. The capabilities of the underlying storage and data services are exposed so that clients can understand the offering.
 
The CDMITM International Standard specifies the interface to access cloud storage and to manage the data stored therein. This International Standard applies to developers who are implementing or using cloud storage. It documents how to access cloud storage and to manage the data stored there.
 
This standard is also published as ISO/IEC 17826:2016.