#2 The discussions are based on an internal, private cloud only

#3 By comparing costs based on a relatively mature “traditional” datacenter against the same datacenter but with a cloud infrastructure implemented and running in a steady-state. A traditional datacenter, is partially (less than 30 percent) virtualized with little to no automation or orchestration and is moderately managed from a holistic perspective.

#4 The NIST definition of a cloud infrastructure will be used for analysis.

Later, the scenarios that exist in a traditional datacenter will be considered and then explained how they would be done in a cloud infrastructure; finally pointing to where the revenue benefits are found or where costs are typically saved.

The usual process carried out for planning, developing and implementing of an application (software) or hardware by the enterprises to drive in revenues involve:

#1 Enterprise decides that they need an application or hardware built which will provide a new revenue stream to the organization. So, they describe to a Business Analyst, what they want the application to do in the form of business requirements.

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