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TRUSTWORTHY HYBRID CLOUD COMPUTING

Integrating legacy applications and ensuring trust-worthy service quality are the two major obstacles in the way of a widespread adoption of cloud computing in businesses today. As a result, many companies completely ignore the potential of cloud computing in offering dynamic scalability, elasticity and lower cost per use. Hybrid cloud computing offers a solution to this problem by allowing an integration of locally operated legacy applications and cloud services.

FZI offers a comprehensive view on cloud computing, highlights the options for hybrid infrastructures, and addresses quality attributes such as performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security. This ensu-res a trustworthy quality of cloud services and an easy integration of legacy applications, thus making all the advantages of cloud computing available to hybrid cloud setups.

Furthermore, FZI customizes the use of cloud computing to your business needs, helps you to decide between a public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud setup, optimizes your cloud-based software architectures, and supports the migration of your legacy applications towards a hybrid cloud setup. FZI’s cutting-edge analysis and simulation approaches allow the development of an optimal cloud strategy for your IT setup.

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Application research with reliable knowledge and technology transfer is the core business and expertise of FZI Research

Center for Information Technology . As a non-profit institution, established 25 years ago by the State of Baden-Württemberg

and the University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) the FZI delivers the results of scientific research in

information technology directly to you. FZI is the IT innovation hub in Baden-Württemberg and innovation partner of the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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YOUR CHALLENGES

· Integration of legacy applications

· Migration to hybrid cloud computing

· Quality-aware engineering of (hybrid) cloud applications (performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security, and costs)

· Analysis and optimization of software systems

· Evaluation and selection of cloud architectures: Public vs. private vs. hybrid

· Systematic exploitation of cloud potentials

YOUR BENEFITS

· Seamless integration of legacy applications

· Trustworthy and cloud-enabled IT infrastructures

· Guaranteed quality and SLAs (Service Level Agreements)

· Cost reductions

OUR SERVICE

· Provide an objective analysis of the exploitation options and potentials of cloud computing

· Analyze applicable cloud concepts, advantages and limitations for your business scenarios

· Optimize quality (e.g. increase availability, ensure scalabili-ty, optimize response times, guarantee data security, etc.)

· Analyze and simulate alternative software architectures for cloud and hybrid cloud setups

· Select suitable cloud providers, platforms, middleware, and architectures

EXAMPLES OF IMPLEMENTATION

Our cloud computing strategy has its basis in an approach called „Palladio“, which helps to evaluate software quality. Several companies have successfully implemented our software quality evaluation approach, for example 1&1, IBM and Oracle.

Legacy integration

Estimate the impact of software extensions on your existing software systems and derive optimal extension strategies.

Load balancing

Analyse your architecture for load balancing capabilities and advantages.

Scalability

Analyse your Software for bottlenecks and scalability limitations.

Availability

Optimise your service availability.

Confi guration optimization

Analyse your software to find the optimum configuration for a scenario.

Design alternatives

Analyse your available design alter- natives and find the right solution without cost intensive trial and error prototyping.

SCENARIOS

FZI Research Center for Information Technology | Research Department SE

Dr.-Ing. Klaus Krogmann | krogmann@fzi.de | Tel. +49 721 9654 - 636

For more information visit www.palladio-simulator.com