Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise

Ian Sommerville; Ali Khajeh-Hosseini; J Bogaerts; P. Teregowda

doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2011.59

Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise

Ian Sommerville, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, J Bogaerts , P. Teregowda

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of using public IaaS clouds. The tool enables IT architects to model their applications, data and infrastructure requirements in addition to their computational resource usage patterns. The tool can be used to compare the cost of different cloud providers, deployment options and usage scenarios. The second tool is a spreadsheet that outlines the benefits and risks of using IaaS clouds from an enterprise perspective, this tool provides a starting point for risk assessment. Two case studies were used to evaluate the tools. The tools were useful as they informed decision makers about the costs, benefits and risks of using the cloud.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings, 4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2011
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	541-48
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.59
Publication status	Published - Jul 2011

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