Cloud Services Optimization Case Study

• Main Authors: Ling-Shan Hu, 胡令珊
• Other Authors: Yi-Wen Fan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yzs2tf

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊管理學系在職專班 === 103 === Due to advances in cloud computing technology and rapid changes in the marketplace, the company described in this case study faces the following challenges: (1) constantly changing business needs, (2) increasing number of servers, (3) frequent software upgrades, and (4) need to reduce costs. Because of these challenges, the company proposed a cloud computing service optimization project with the objectives of increasing software release frequency, increasing software development quality, and quickly recovery from service interruptions. Therefore this study looks at the challenges faced, their impacts, and the solutions employed by the company during the course of this cloud computing service optimization project from the systematic and organizational levels. This study focuses on following three key topics: 1. The need for the optimization of cloud service operations and the actions the company took to address those needs. 2. Anticipated contribution of the auto-deployment system to the company’s optimization goals and system architectural issues. 3. Organizational change and team structural change issues faced by the company when implementing the cloud service optimization project. This case study analyzes the company’s introduction of DevOps strategy to optimize its cloud services and how changing people, structure, and culture are crucial to organizational change. Without organizational change, cloud computing optimization by itself will not achieve its intended goals. Lastly, this study’s finding is of particular value to existing systems seeking to introduce auto-deployment systems, but not of particular value to startups or new systems.