Migrating on-premise application workloads to a hybrid cloud architecture

Abstract

Organizations are moving towards adapting cloud strategies for various reasons. The important benefits realized with the adaption of cloud computing are - scalability, availability, performance and cost. With the benefits, come the challenges such as - security, privacy, regulatory compliances, trust, etc. With adoption of cloud, organizations are relieved from hardware infrastructures up to a large extent as well as overheads of managing, operating and physical security of infrastructure hardware. Having legacy applications on-premise, enterprises are looking forward to modernize the applications in terms of planning to strategize the future vision, need for scaling those applications, be competitive in the market with an ability as well as capability to cope and adapt the new demand and changes with ease, flexibility and cost effectiveness. One of the immediate adaptions with the cloud that the enterprises are looking forward is migrating their on-premise workloads to the cloud infrastructure, so that they can realize the benefit of cost-effective solutions along with minimizing operational and management overheads. In this paper we are proposing a hybrid cloud architecture that an enterprise may adapt while considering migrating one of its legacy applications’ workload to the cloud environment; with minimal changes and migration effort.