Use the Cloud as your “sandbox” to experiment and do R&D for on-prem systems.
This document discusses using a cloud model to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers or instances into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem. For this document, the cloud offering from Skytap is used as the example cloud for the possible approach, although the same techniques can be leveraged in other cloud offerings.
It is important to note that this document is not advocating for reengineering applications from on-prem to the cloud, though that is a possibility. Instead, the focus of this document is to describe how to leverage the cloud to help validate the design of re-organizing a large number of physical on-prem servers down to a smaller number of resources also hosted on-prem. In this case, the cloud is used as the R&D “sandbox” for key design assumptions.
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