Abstract
The migration of existing applications to the cloud enables enterprises to preserve their previous investments and—at the same time—to benefit from the properties of the cloud. This article presents a semi-automated approach for migrating existing enterprise applications to the cloud. Thereby, information about the application is gathered in the source environment, the application is extracted, transformed, and cloud-enabled. This makes the application ready for provisioning in the target cloud. Cloud-enabling an application preserves its business functionality and does not change the fundamental way the application was built.
About the authors
Tobias Binz is a research assistant and PhD student at the University of Stuttgart. His research goal is the automated discovery of enterprise applications and their migration to the cloud. He is local coordinator of the CloudCycle project, where one of his responsibilities is the architecture for OpenTOSCA, an ecosystem supporting the OASIS TOSCA standard.
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), University of Stuttgart, Universitaetsstr. 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Tel.: +49-711-68588485
Uwe Breitenbücher is a research assistant and PhD student at the University of Stuttgart. His research vision is to improve cloud application provisioning and management through automating the application of management patterns. Uwe is part of the CloudCycle project which researches portable cloud-services with guaranteed security and compliance.
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), University of Stuttgart, Universitaetsstr. 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Oliver Kopp is a research assistant and PhD student at the University of Stuttgart. In his thesis, he focuses on distributed transactions and global fault handling in service choreographies. His past projects include the projects Tools4BPEL and COMPAS where compliance-driven models, languages, and architectures for services have been researched. Currently, he is also part of the CloudCycle project.
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), University of Stuttgart, Universitaetsstr. 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Frank Leymann is a full professor of computer science and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests include cloud computing, architecture patterns, workflow and business process management, service oriented computing, and integration technology. His background includes having been IBM Distinguished Engineer and elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), University of Stuttgart, Universitaetsstr. 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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