Cloud Infrastructure

Question 1

Basic data centre

Answer 1

• S/W &H/W infrastructure
• facilities and logistics
• basic monitoring

Question 2

Easy software access to

Answer 2

— element management
— resource management

Question 3

Add visibility

Answer 3

• Web of metadata (categories, capabilities, configurations, dependencies)
• lifecycle (birth, growth, failure, recovery, death)

Question 4

Add real world context

Answer 4

• Governance
• architectural views
• Testing, monitoring, diagnostics, and verification

Question 5

Everything you’ve loaded (your problem initially)

Answer 5

• Web of metadata
• lifecycle
• architectural views
• testing, monitoring, diagnostics
• governance
• your application

Question 6

Your problem in the end (as cloud infra evolves)

Answer 6

A little bit of governance
A little bit of testing and monitoring
Your application

Question 7

Cloud provider problem in the end

Answer 7

Everything else:
with Basic data centre + easy software access => Cloud infrastructure

Visibility + some real world context => cloud servers