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Cloud migration research: a systematic review

Jamshidi, Pooyan, Ahmad, Aakash and Pahl, Claus orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9049-212X (2013) Cloud migration research: a systematic review. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 1 (2). pp. 142-157. ISSN 2168-7161

Abstract
BACKGROUND--By leveraging cloud services, organizations can deploy their software systems over a pool of resources. However, organizations heavily depend on their business-critical systems, which have been developed over long periods. These legacy applications are usually deployed on-premise. In recent years, research in cloud migration has been carried out. However, there is no secondary study to consolidate this research. OBJECTIVE--This paper aims to identify, taxonomically classify and systematically compare existing research on cloud migration. METHOD--We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of 23 selected studies, published from 2010 to 2013. We classified and compared the selected studies based on a characterization framework that we also introduce in this paper. RESULTS--The research synthesis results in a knowledge base of current solutions for legacy-to-cloud migration. This review also identifies research gaps and directions for future research. CONCLUSION--This review reveals that cloud migration research is still in early stages of maturity, but is advancing. It identifies the needs for a migration framework to help improving the maturity level and consequently trust into cloud migration. This review shows a lack of tool support to automate migration tasks. This study also identifies needs for architectural adaptation and self-adaptive cloud-enabled systems.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Cloud computing; Cloud migration
Subjects:Computer Science > Software engineering
Computer Science > World Wide Web
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?...
Copyright Information:© 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Enterprise Ireland
ID Code:19636
Deposited On:12 Nov 2013 14:22 by Claus Pahl . Last Modified 21 Jan 2021 17:08
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