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Cloud computing is currently
the fastest growing technology in the IT industry and it shows no signs of
reaching its peak.
In theory, cloud computing is incredibly
simple, it is composed a large data center that can accommodate hundreds
(and sometime thousands) of application servers. The applications residing
on these servers include every conceivable application need by small and
large businesses. The Cloud Service Provider (CSP) assumes the
responsibility for installing, managing, and supporting the applications and
database residing on these servers, and charges each customer a small
monthly, annually, or metered fee for accessing these applications. It also
includes an array of web servers that interconnects these application
servers to the Internet.
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CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER (csp) MIGRATION STRATEGY
The fact that the TIMC server is utilizes the
Internet to interconnect with small business customers greatly simplifys our
CSP migration strategy. From the small business customer's prospective, it
is totally transparent whether their technology infrastructure is connected
to a:
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Single Server,
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Multiple Servers, or;
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TIMaaS Server Farm.
TIMC is a
cloud-based server running on a Windows platform. It includes the
application software, relational databases, parsing utilities and
industry-standard networking protocols required to manage multiple
small-business technology infrastructures. The TIMC server runs in a remote
environment and requires hardware, software or on-site technician at the
small business customer’s premise.
The Internet eliminates the physical distances between
TIMC platforms as a design factor but in certain locations where there is a
large concentration of small-business customers, economics of scale can be
gained by have multiple TIMC standalone server platforms located in the same
facility. This particularly true in locations where have on-site TIMC
Technicians supporting user help desk and technical support functions.
The cloud-based architecture of TIMC makes it the prototypical cloud
computing application. The Technology Infrastructure Management as a Service
(TIMaaS) implementation can be implemented in a server farm that includes
dozens (and possibly hundreds) of TIMC servers. One of the major advantages
of the TIMaaS server-farm implementation is that it provides a composite
view of the Internet as a whole, and can quickly detect and isolate major
failures that could propagate across multiple ISPs.
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