Critical Review of Design Considerations in Forming a Cloud Infrastructure for SMEs
Lai Yen Ling, Muhammad Ehsan Rana, Qusay Al-Maatouk · 2022 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (DASA) · 2022
Cloud based solutions provide a robust and flexible approach to support and improve the digital businesses for better success. This study is focused on the need analysis for the Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) companies for the perspective of finding the most suitable and appropriate cloud strategies to obtain the best outcome. Various aspects included in the design of the cloud solution such as scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance and efficiency are discussed. The essential components of the cloud infrastructure framework such as applications, services and orchestration are also explored. Finally, authors have proposed an infrastructural framework focusing on the virtual layer, control layer and orchestration layer of the Cloud.