Industry Cloud - Effective Adoption of Cloud Computing for Industry Solutions

Many enterprises in industries start using Cloud Computing for their IT infrastructure services. This adoption of Cloud Computing is a part of the enterprise transformation which is the migration from a legacy IT environment to Cloud Computing. On the other hand, one of major targets is an industry solution which provides a critical business service to their end customers. This paper proposes Industry Cloud which is the enhanced design of Cloud Computing for industry solutions. It efficiently supports industry solutions for enterprise business requirements. The paper describes Industry Cloud with a requirement analysis of industry solutions, those adopted functions, and three use case scenarios in the electronics and retail industry. The contribution of the paper is the analysis of industry wide requirements, the definition of Industry Cloud with a common function among industry solutions and the usage with use case scenarios.