TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the readiness to move into the cloud
AU - Orue-Echevarria, Leire
AU - Alonso, Juncal
AU - Escalante, Marisa
AU - Schuster, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2013.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The race to keep software compatible and optimal with respect to thelatest trends is hard. 90% of software cost can be due to maintenance, and 75%on developing new features to stay competitive and relevant. The industryprogresses through periods of incremental development interspersed with trueparadigm shifts. Legacy software must keep up the pace.At present we are experiencing one of these paradigm shifts, as remarked bythe EC [1] “The speed of change in Internet technologies continues to beimpressive. Software is becoming more and more pervasive: it runs on thedevices that we use every day … [opening] a new world of possibleapplications”. Today, technological and business model innovation generateslarge demand for the transition of legacy software towards modernization.However, software modernization is not a trivial issue and if improperly done,it dangers the business continuity and sustainability.This means that for any company meditating about the transition to the newparadigm of cloud computing, there is a need to have at its disposal aninnovative and combined technical and business analysis on the maturity andprospect of the legacy application. The major target of this process is to identifyin advance the perspectives of the migration and pre-evaluate the performanceand business benefits with relation to the cost of the process. For the first time,the business value will be directly attached to the technical performance.This paper presents this aforementioned approach, being currently developedand tested, in order to assess the maturity of an application and the convenienceof migrating to the new cloud computing paradigm or not, based on quantitativeindicators while always ensuring the company’s business continuity. Followingthis approach, questions such as cost and effort of the migration, impact of newbusiness models in the company or return of the investment will be provided inadvance of tackling the actual modernization.
AB - The race to keep software compatible and optimal with respect to thelatest trends is hard. 90% of software cost can be due to maintenance, and 75%on developing new features to stay competitive and relevant. The industryprogresses through periods of incremental development interspersed with trueparadigm shifts. Legacy software must keep up the pace.At present we are experiencing one of these paradigm shifts, as remarked bythe EC [1] “The speed of change in Internet technologies continues to beimpressive. Software is becoming more and more pervasive: it runs on thedevices that we use every day … [opening] a new world of possibleapplications”. Today, technological and business model innovation generateslarge demand for the transition of legacy software towards modernization.However, software modernization is not a trivial issue and if improperly done,it dangers the business continuity and sustainability.This means that for any company meditating about the transition to the newparadigm of cloud computing, there is a need to have at its disposal aninnovative and combined technical and business analysis on the maturity andprospect of the legacy application. The major target of this process is to identifyin advance the perspectives of the migration and pre-evaluate the performanceand business benefits with relation to the cost of the process. For the first time,the business value will be directly attached to the technical performance.This paper presents this aforementioned approach, being currently developedand tested, in order to assess the maturity of an application and the convenienceof migrating to the new cloud computing paradigm or not, based on quantitativeindicators while always ensuring the company’s business continuity. Followingthis approach, questions such as cost and effort of the migration, impact of newbusiness models in the company or return of the investment will be provided inadvance of tackling the actual modernization.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85009821175
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009821175
SN - 9783319038735
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 12
EP - 20
BT - Cloud Computing - 3rd International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Yousif, Mazin
A2 - Schubert, Lutz
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2012
Y2 - 24 September 2012 through 26 September 2012
ER -