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Cloud Migration High-Level Requirements

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Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World (RCIS 2023)

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With the increasing adoption of Cloud Computing in the industry, new challenges have emerged for information systems design. In this context, many requirements are met by choosing adequate cloud providers, cloud services, and service configurations. To provide design support, it is necessary to understand what drives the selection of each of these elements. Therefore, it may be interesting to elicitate these high-level requirements, to have an overview of what significantly impacts the cloud environment selection. Here we focus on a particular case of cloud system design: migrations. Through a qualitative study with cloud migration experts, we identify eleven high-level requirements that drive design decisions. We propose an analysis of these results and two classifications to support elicitation and analysis of requirements in cloud migrations.

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    While we distinguish requirements (they come from users and stakeholders) and drivers (they are constraints related to the domain), this is not always clear in the early design stage. For instance, security can be as well a requirement and implicitly enforced at some point, as a certain level of security is now considered normal. Therefore, we choose to use both as synonyms in this paper.

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    Workflow orchestration platform. https://airflow.apache.org.

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    Kubernetes, a widespread containers orchestrator: https://kubernetes.io/

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    French protection program for the Nation’s assets: http://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/missions/protection-du-potentiel-scientifique-et-technique-de-la-nation/.

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    App Engine, a Google Cloud PaaS. https://cloud.google.com/appengine.

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    Power Usage Effectiveness: a standard measure of how efficiently a data center uses energy.

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    Antoine Aubé & Thomas Polacsek

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Aubé, A., Polacsek, T. (2023). Cloud Migration High-Level Requirements. In: Nurcan, S., Opdahl, A.L., Mouratidis, H., Tsohou, A. (eds) Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World. RCIS 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 476. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33080-3_2

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