This document discusses factors to consider when determining which applications to move to the cloud. It notes that edge applications that require less integration are often good candidates for the cloud. It also indicates that deciding which legacy applications to move is complicated by their complex interfaces. The key factors to evaluate include an application's age, quality, number and complexity of interfaces, and importance to the business. Priority should be given to applications that require more maintenance and consume larger portions of the IT budget.

1. cases that makes an application
suitable for Cloud
• cloud is frequently a collaboration or productivity application that sits at the
edge of an enterprise because “edge” applications require less integration
with other apps.
• deciding which applications should subsequently be ported becomes more
complicated because of the complexity of interfaces that exist within legacy
applications.
• This involves evaluating the cloud readiness of applications according to
their age, quality, number and complexity of interfaces with other
applications, and importance to the business.
• the one that has more internal service issues and consumes more of the IT
budget for maintenance and support.

2. Prioritised list of applications and a brief
justification as to why you would prioritise these
applications.
• Cloud is the right choice for application development and testing. With zero capital cost
and low operation cost, cloud can help organizations of any size and type with faster
prototyping, development and deployment. Once the product life cycle is complete,
organizations can relinquish the cloud infrastructure.
• Batch applications are clouduitable – suitable for cloud. To make the process faster, even
more instances of virtual images can be provisions to perform tasks in parallel. Only
cloud can offer this capability of rapid provisioning of IT infrastructure.
• Mobile applications can utilize cloud environments. Cloud computing can do the heavy
lifting in the backend and mobile devices can leverage the elasticity and scalability
attributes of cloud.
• Disaster Recovery as a Service has been gaining traction among organizations. IT
professionals are now considering backing up their data in secured cloud environments.