Question

Subject: Cloud computing

The migration of applications to ATN’s new PaaS platform was successful, but also raised a number of new concerns pertaining to the responsiveness and availability of PaaS-hosted IT resource. ATN intends to move more applications to a PaaS platform, but decides to do so by establishing a second PaaS environment with a different cloud provider. This will allow them to compare cloud providers during a three month assessment period.

Discuss on what different features the organization will consider when planning to make a comparison

Answer 1

The organization will consider below features for comparison between two Paas environment:-

1> Flexibility :- The user can easily controls the features and tools are placed within the platform that best suit their specific needs.

2>Security: Features like data security, backup and recovery are available.

3> Easy Development: Easily developement of an application.

4> Adaptability: Features can easily be substituted when circumstance change.

5> Portability: When extra capacity is required, users can easily move to the public cloud between private clouds and public clouds, to become a hybrid cloud.