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Manageability
Reporting
Fault management
Security
End user access control
Provider access control
Resource partitioning
Logging
Threat Management
Compliance
Compliance with regulations
The importance of specific areas also depends on the planned category of cloud
services to be deployed.
7.1
Requirement Areas
The area of functionality ultimately deals with the basic services requested. They
are regarded to be the overall solution requirements when establishing the
applicability of cloud solutions (Hugos & Hulitzky, 2010, p. 77).
Infrastructure-As-A-Service for example provides the user with processing power,
storage, and other essential computing resources. In order to efficiently use IAAS,
the company is demanded to consider what resources are needed. Furthermore it
should be taken into consideration what operating system will be used and if it
should be obtained from the remote provide or not (Harding, 2011, p. 86).
Platform-As-A-Service on the other hand gives the company the opportunity to
develop and implement applications, created using programming languages and
tools provided by the cloud services host. Again the company should be aware of
the environment the applications will be executed in, as well as the programming
language intended to use for writing the applications. A possibility could be that most
of the development process is done locally and only the final code is uploaded into
the cloud for integration purposes, testing and deployment. This measure can help
reducing expenditures and speed up the process of development (Harding, 2011,
p. 87) & (Baun, 2010, pp. 35-38).
Source: (Harding, 2011, p. 86)
