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Migrating SOA Applications to Cloud: A Systematic Mapping Study

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Technologies and Innovation (CITI 2017)

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Cloud Computing has emerged as an economical option to use IT resources when needed without considerations about where they are allocated or how they are delivered. Cloud Computing expands the SOA capabilities by adding scalability, elasticity and other relevant quality attributes. In this context, many companies have started to migrate their SOA applications to Cloud environments without proper support. We conducted a systematic mapping study to gather the current knowledge about existing strategies for migrating SOA applications to cloud computing. 105 papers were identified and the results show that most of the approaches follow a semi-automated (conventional) strategy for migrating to the Cloud (93%) and that most of the reported works follow a hybrid deployment model (60%). We additionally identify several research gaps such as the need for more technology-independent solutions, a common definition for concepts and resources, tool support, and validation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Miguel Botto-Tobar & Lorenzo J. Cevallos-Torres

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Miguel Botto-Tobar

  3. Universidad Estatal de Milagro, Milagro, Ecuador

    Richard Ramirez-Anormaliza & Edwin Cevallos-Ayon

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  2. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Katty Lagos-Ortiz

  3. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Gema Alcaraz-Mármol

  4. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Javier Del Cioppo

  5. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Néstor Vera-Lucio

  6. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Martha Bucaram-Leverone

Appendices

Appendix

A Excerpt of the Papers Selected

Complete list available at: http://www.win.tue.nl/~mbottoto/resources/citi2017.

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Fan C-T, Wang W-J, Chang Y-S. Agent-Based Service Migration Framework in Hybrid Cloud, in 2011 IEEE International Conference on High Perfor-mance Computing and Communications, 2011, 887892.

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Botto-Tobar, M., Ramirez-Anormaliza, R., Cevallos-Torres, L.J., Cevallos-Ayon, E. (2017). Migrating SOA Applications to Cloud: A Systematic Mapping Study. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67283-0_1

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