Article in Proceedings INPROC-2013-56

BibliographyStrauch, Steve; Andrikopoulos, Vasilios; Thomas, Bachmann; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Passow, Stephan; Vukojevic-Haupt, Karolina: Decision Support for the Migration of the Application Database Layer to the Cloud.
In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'13).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 639-646, english.
IEEE Computer Society Press, December 2, 2013.
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2013.90.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.11 (Software Engineering Software Architectures)
H.3.4 (Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software)
KeywordsData Migration; Decision Support; Database layer; Application Refactoring
Abstract

Migrating an existing application to the Cloud is a complex and multi-dimensional problem requiring in many cases adapting the application in significant ways. Looking specifically into the database layer of the application, i.e. the aspect providing data persistence and manipulation capabilities, this involves dealing with differences in the granularity of interactions, refactoring of the application to cope with remote data sources, and addressing data confidentiality concerns. Toward this goal, in this work we present an application migration methodology which incorporates these aspects, and a decision support, application refactoring and data migration tool that assists application developers in realizing this methodology. For purposes of evaluating our proposal we present the results of a case study conducted in the context of an eScience project.

ContactSteve Strauch
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)4CaaSt, ALLOW Ensembles, SimTech
Entry dateNovember 14, 2013
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