Conceptualising Cloud Migration Lifecycle
This addresses the challenge for organizations seeking to modernize legacy IT systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing cloud migration concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of migrating enterprise software systems to cloud computing by conceptualizing a cloud migration lifecycle, but it does not provide concrete results or numbers.
Many enterprise software systems supporting IT services are characterised by a need for a high computing capability and resource consumption (Armbrust et al. 2010; Buyya et al. 2008; Koçak et al. 2013). Cloud Computing initiatives have received a significant attention as a viable solution to address these requirements through offering a wide range of services, which are universally accessible, acquirable and releasable in a dynamic fashion, and payable on the basis of service usage. Hence, organisations view the cloud services as an opportunity to empower their legacy systems.