Conceptualising Cloud Migration Process
M. Gholami, Graham Cedric Low, Ghassan Beydoun · UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) · 2016
Adoption of cloud computing as an outsourcing strategy has grown rapidly among IT-based organisations in recent years.Research around migrating legacy systems to cloud environments is proliferated with a variety of approaches that are specific to particular scenarios.However, an overarching and integrated view of the cloud migration process does not exist in the current literature.As an attempt to ameliorate this shortcoming, this research applies a metamodeling approach and develops a generic cloud migration process model derived from the extant cloud migration literature.The proposed metamodel is not dependent or restricted to any specific cloud platform; rather it is an abstraction of phases, activities, tasks, and work-products that are incorporated in a typical migration process.It underpins a high-level and conceptual view of the cloud migration process and acts as a reusable knowledge repository to design situation-specific migration process models for a given migration scenario.The validity of the metamodel is demonstrated by analysing three existing cloud migration process models.