Cloud Computing in Practice
Bálint Molnár, Gyula Szabó, András A. Benczúr · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2013
In the past years, Cloud Computing has become the hot topic of technical and information technology literature. The Cloud Computing has gained impetus in the applications as well. It can be observed that enterprises in increasing number started moving their application systems into the “Cloud”. In this paper, we discuss the Cloud Computing as an approach for Business Information Systems and the typical ser-vices delivered by the various deployment modes. We present an overview of the methods for migration of traditional business information systems and their data into Cloud Computing environment. Moreover, we explore the novel selection criteria for ERP systems introduction that emerged in relationship with the Cloud Computing phenomena. One of our aims is to provide a survey about the subjects that can be encountered within the first phases during the preparation to plan a migration into a Cloud Computing environment.