AN ENTERPRISE ORIENTED VIEW ON THE CLOUD INTEGRATION APPROACHES - HYBRID CLOUD AND BIG DATA

With the recent increase of SaaS providers in the market, enterprises are having difficulties in choosing their right organization's architecture. Subsequently data that exists outside the organization firewall needs to be managed and controlled. In spite of that, there are additional difficulties by BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) polices i.e. within the organization's firewall, when employees want to access the data using any device from anywhere. As a result, IT is now undergoing a major shift in demanding a new architecture, which will have the ability to integrate anything and anywhere. In order to get the seamless connectivity, between the systems and services across the enterprise, and also achieve the benefits of cloud computing, organizations are revolving to build an effective cloud integration strategy. It entails IT organizations to think about various aspects while choosing an organized approach for their application integration, data integration and process integration. The aim of this paper is to present the various cloud integration challenges, key aspects while choosing Integration solutions, and suggest a Hybrid Integration Architecture for various IT aspects to make the integration process much easier. We also present the benefits of handling Big data in Hybrid Cloud environment. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).