T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing
This technical note presents the results of applying the T-Check method in an initial investigation of cloud computing. In this report, three hypotheses are examined: (1) an organization can use its existing infrastructure simultaneously with cloud resources with relative ease; (2) cloud computing environments provide ways to continuously update the amount of resources allocated to an organization; and (3) it is possible to move an application's resources between cloud computing providers, with varying levels of effort required. From the T-Check investigation, the first hypothesis is partially sustained and the last two hypotheses are fully sustained within the context specified for the investigation.
From an engineering perspective, cloud computing is a distributed computing paradigm that focuses on providing a wide range of users with distributed access to virtualized hardware and/or software infrastructure over the internet. From a business perspective, it is the availability of computing resources that are scalable and billed on a usage basis. While scalability is the primary tenet of cloud computing, a host of other advantages are advertised as being inherently obtained through cloud computing.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Service-Oriented ArchitectureSoftware Architecture
System of Systems
Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009
September 2010
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SEI:
Strowd, Harrison; & Lewis, Grace. T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn009.cfm
IEEE:
H. Strowd, and G. Lewis, "T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn009.cfm
APA:
Strowd, H., & Lewis, G. (2010). T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009). Retrieved May 22, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn009.cfm
CHI:
Strowd, Harrison, and Grace Lewis. T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn009.cfm
MLA:
Strowd, H., & Lewis, G. 2010. T-Check in System-of-Systems Technologies: Cloud Computing (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2010-TN-009). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn009.cfm
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