Cloud Readiness Assessment of Legacy Application

Flavio Corradini, Francesco De Angelis, Andrea Polini, Samuele Sabbatini

2015

Abstract

Applications and services hosted in the cloud are increasing continuously. Cloud technology offers important perspectives (performance, high availability, elasticity) and it enables new business models. Unfortunately, this new paradigm faces unprecedent requirements not addressed in legacy application (multi-tenancy, scalability, etc.). This leads to complex re-engineering phases in order to to migrate existing software into a cloud environment. Before starting a migration, it is important to analyze the cloud compliance of the application, what to expect after the migration and the effort required to fulfill these expectations. This paper assesses a way to extract an index that describes the feasibility of the re-engineering. We test the metric with a real application that needs to be migrated to a private cloud.

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in Harvard Style

Corradini F., De Angelis F., Polini A. and Sabbatini S. (2015). Cloud Readiness Assessment of Legacy Application . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 119-126. DOI: 10.5220/0005443301190126


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer15,
author={Flavio Corradini and Francesco De Angelis and Andrea Polini and Samuele Sabbatini},
title={Cloud Readiness Assessment of Legacy Application},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={119-126},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005443301190126},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Cloud Readiness Assessment of Legacy Application
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Corradini F.
AU - De Angelis F.
AU - Polini A.
AU - Sabbatini S.
PY - 2015
SP - 119
EP - 126
DO - 10.5220/0005443301190126