The more value an application or business process can exploit from the basic cloud model value proposition, the more valuable a cloud transition becomes. This fact emphasizes the need to categorize enterprise applications by important organizational goals and target deployment options. Several factors can be used to categorize applications. This categorization often drives the selection of an appropriate deployment model for an application being moved to the cloud. These factors include security privacy regulation needs, unique technology requirements, agility, and elasticity needs. The process of categorizing applications is unique for each enterprise, but the cloud solution architect should educate, lead, and advise throughout the process:
Use of a categorization framework can form the basis for establishing a structured approach for assessing a given...
