Cloud Migration Process - Case Study on Business Migration Process to the Cloud

Lukasz Ostrowski, Markus Helfert, Huanhuan Xhiong

2013

Abstract

Cloud computing has become a trend in the Information Systems (IS) field and provides an interesting prospect for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Main reasons why business are moving into the cloud is due to the opportunity for costs reduction, flexibility, and high automation. However, moving all business data into the cloud raises some security concerns. Hence, our work is to determine a business process for migration businesses to the cloud that adds transparency and clarify ambiguities of this move to small-medium business holders. In this paper we describe our approach to design a migration process for small-medium enterprises, therefore following process-oriented reference model in design science research. We present the migration process and underline various migration options and proven methods to increase its adaptation to business.

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in Harvard Style

Ostrowski L., Helfert M. and Xhiong H. (2013). Cloud Migration Process - Case Study on Business Migration Process to the Cloud . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 119-122. DOI: 10.5220/0004362301190122


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Lukasz Ostrowski and Markus Helfert and Huanhuan Xhiong},
title={Cloud Migration Process - Case Study on Business Migration Process to the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={119-122},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004362301190122},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Cloud Migration Process - Case Study on Business Migration Process to the Cloud
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Ostrowski L.
AU - Helfert M.
AU - Xhiong H.
PY - 2013
SP - 119
EP - 122
DO - 10.5220/0004362301190122