Cloud Migration Research: A Systematic Review

By Pooyan Jamshidi, Aakash Ahmad, Claus Pahl. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2013

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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.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Jacopo Soldani
2. Pooyan Jamshidi
3. Claus Pahl
4. Antonio Brogi

In Information Systems

1. Jacopo Soldani
2. Pooyan Jamshidi
3. Claus Pahl
4. Antonio Brogi

Citations in the corpus

• Cloud Container Technologies: A State-of-the-Art Review (2019, methodology): “Review Step Activity plan identify need, specify reseach questions, define protocol conduct select primary studies, extract/synthesise data document document observations, analyse threats, report SLRs and SMSs entail to identify, classify and compare existing evidence on the use of container technol”
• Microservices: A Systematic Mapping Study (2016, neutral): “(Jamshidi et al., 2013a; Jamshidi et al., 2013b) that is outlined in this section.”