Cloud migration process-a survey, evaluation framework, and open challenges

Authors

Mahdi Fahmideh Gholami, University of New South WalesFollow
Farhad Daneshgar, Bangkok University, University of New South WalesFollow
Graham C. Low, University of New South WalesFollow
Ghassan Beydoun, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

108773

Publication Details

Gholami, M. Fahmideh., Daneshgar, F., Low, G. & Beydoun, G. (2016). Cloud migration process-a survey, evaluation framework, and open challenges. Journal of Systems and Software, 120 31-69.

Abstract

Moving mission-oriented enterprise software applications to cloud environments is a crucial IT task and requires a systematic approach. The foci of this paper is to provide a detailed review of extant cloud migration approaches from the perspective of the process model. To this aim, an evaluation framework is proposed and used to appraise and compare existing approaches for highlighting their features, similarities, and key differences. The survey distills the status quo and makes a rich inventory of important activities, recommendations, techniques, and concerns that are common in a typical cloud migration process in one place. This enables both academia and practitioners in the cloud computing community to get an overarching view of the process of the legacy application migration to the cloud. Furthermore, the survey identifies a number challenges that have not been yet addressed by existing approaches, developing opportunities for further research endeavours.