Industrial Patterns on Cloud

Cloud Computing is rapidly gaining traction today as the preferred platform for deploying both development and production workloads. Every industry has started adopting hybrid hosting models to leverage benefits that accrue from a convergence of technologies; Cloud is being used as a flexible springboard to mount a defense against disruptive digital trends. The use cases and associated gains are industry specific, ranging from leveraging auto-scaling to assuage seasonal spikes in Retail, and creating software-defined network functions in Telecom, to aggregating and analyzing sensor data in Automotive, and deploying multi-site disaster recovery in Government. In this chapter, we will embark on an expedition spanning ten industries, searching for patterns where Cloud enables advantageous solutions to business-specific categories of use cases. The observations are based on actual case studies chosen from hundreds of real Cloud deals across industries.