Questions about the category: Infrastructure and application modernization

Your organization is migrating to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to move terabytes of data from on-premises file servers to Cloud Storage. Your organization wants the migration process to be automated and to be managed by Google. Your organization has an existing Dedicated Interconnect connection that it wants to use.

Your organization is moving an application to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to migrate the application's working database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. The database runs on the MySQL engine. The migration must cause minimal disruption to users. Data must be secured while in transit.

Your company is running the majority of its workloads in a co-located data center. The workloads are running on virtual machines (VMs) on top of a hypervisor and use either Linux or Windows server editions. As part of your company's transformation strategy, you need to modernize workloads as much as possible by adopting cloud-native technologies. You need to migrate the workloads into Google Cloud.

Your organization is running all its workloads in a private cloud on top of a hypervisor. Your organization has decided it wants to move to Google Cloud as quickly as possible. Your organization wants minimal changes to the current environment, while using the maximum amount of managed services Google offers.

You are currently managing workloads running on Windows Server for which your company owns the licenses. Your workloads are only needed during working hours, which allows you to shut down the instances during the weekend. Your Windows Server licenses are up for renewal in a month, and you want to optimize your license cost.

You are a program manager within a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that offers rendering software for animation studios. Your team needs the ability to allow scenes to be scheduled at will and to be interrupted at any time to restart later. Any individual scene rendering takes less than 12 hours to complete, and there is no service-level agreement (SLA) for the completion time for all scenes. Results will be stored in a global Cloud Storage bucket. The compute resources are not bound to any single geographical location. This software needs to run on Google Cloud in a cost-optimized way.

Your company's development team is building an application that will be deployed on Cloud Run. You are designing a CI/CD pipeline so that any new version of the application can be deployed in the fewest number of steps possible using the CI/CD pipeline you are designing. You need to select a storage location for the images of the application after the CI part of your pipeline has built them.

Each of the three cloud service models - infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) - offers benefits between flexibility and levels of management by the cloud provider and the customer.

As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application deployments faster.

Your organization is building an application running in Google Cloud. Currently, software builds, tests, and regular deployments are done manually, but you want to reduce work for the team. Your organization wants to use Google Cloud managed solutions to automate your build, testing, and deployment process.

Your organization needs to establish private network connectivity between its on-premises network and its workloads running in Google Cloud. You need to be able to set up the connection as soon as possible.

Your organization is developing a mobile app and wants to select a fully featured cloud-based compute platform for it.

Your company has been using a shared facility for data storage and will be migrating to Google Cloud. One of the internal applications uses Linux custom images that need to be migrated.

Your organization runs an application on virtual machines in Google Cloud. This application processes incoming images. This activity takes hours to create a result for each image. The workload for this application normally stays at a certain baseline level, but at regular intervals it spikes to a much greater workload.
Your organization needs to control the cost to run this application.

Your organization runs many workloads in different Google Cloud projects, each linked to the same billing account. Each project's workload costs can vary from month to month, but the overall combined cost of all projects is relatively stable. Your organization needs to optimize its cost.

Your organization wants to migrate your on-premises environment to Google Cloud. The on-premises environment consists of containers and virtual machine instances.

Your organization is defining the resource hierarchy for its new application in Google Cloud.
You need separate development and production environments. The production environment will be deployed in Compute Engine in two regions.

An organization is planning its cloud expenditure.

An organization relies on online seasonal sales for the majority of their annual revenue.

An organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on-premises around the world.
They want to modernize their infrastructure with a multi-cloud architecture.

An organization needs to run frequent updates for their business app.

Which technology allows organizations to run multiple computer operating systems on a single piece of physical hardware?

An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud.

An organization wants to migrate legacy applications currently hosted in their data center to the cloud.
The current architecture dictates that each application needs its own operating system (OS) instead of sharing an OS.

Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?

An organization wants its users to validate a series of new features for their app.

An organization has decided to modernize their applications in the cloud to keep up with their customers' needs.

An organization needs to migrate specialized workloads to the cloud while maintaining their existing complex licensing and architecture.

An organization is planning to create many new applications and needs a system for managing and orchestrating their containers.

A multinational organization has decided to use public cloud services to modernize their IT infrastructure.

An organization wants full control of their virtual machine infrastructure for a custom home-grown application with a product that autoscales and automatically updates.

An organization wants to build an entirely new infrastructure and applications in the cloud.

An organization wants to create a new application in the cloud to replace an existing on-premises application.

Why should an organization consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving from on-premises to the cloud?

An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-premises infrastructure.

An organization has an on-premises IT infrastructure. Their customer-facing application repeatedly fails during peak usage.

An organization is struggling to keep up with the growth of their application which is running on legacy infrastructure.

An organization is looking for a solution to help them build applications using their preferred programming language and tools. They also want to minimize time spent on infrastructure management.

An organization is struggling to ensure that their legacy systems meet rapidly changing IT needs.

An organization is looking for a solution that will allow them to build new applications, modernize old ones, and run applications across different cloud providers.

An organization is struggling to meet user demand for change and wants to modernize their legacy applications by moving the applications to the cloud.

An organization is looking for a storage solution that will help them serve content to users worldwide. They need a solution that offers a high level of availability.

An international law firm needs their HR application to be able to share and access varying amounts of sensitive data across their branch offices.

A large retail organization uses traditional technology for their ecommerce website. During peaks in traffic, resources are often underutilized or overprovisioned. They have decided to migrate to cloud technology.

An organization is looking for a hybrid-cloud management solution that will help them build and run applications on-premises and in the cloud.