Title: Migrating mission-critical applications in federated cloud: a case study

Authors: Alba Amato; Rocco Aversa; Massimo Ficco; Salvatore Venticinque

Addresses: Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Universitá della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', via Roma 29 – 81031 Aversa, Italy ' Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Universitá della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', via Roma 29 – 81031 Aversa, Italy ' Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Universitá della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', via Roma 29 – 81031 Aversa, Italy ' Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Universitá della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', via Roma 29 – 81031 Aversa, Italy

Abstract: Although virtualisation, elasticity and resource sharing enable new levels of flexibility, convenience and economy benefits, they also add new challenges and more areas for potential failures and security vulnerabilities, which represent the major concerns for companies and public organisations that want to shift their business and mission critical applications and sensitive data to the cloud. This paper discusses some technical issues, which must be addressed to migrate mission-critical applications to public clouds. Moreover, by using a case study, an approach to broker cloud infrastructure needs to satisfy more restrictive critical requirements is presented.

Keywords: mission-critical applications; cloud federation; brokering; security; dependability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.096723

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2018 Vol.12 No.4, pp.379 - 390

Received: 29 Jun 2016
Accepted: 30 Nov 2016
Published online: 10 Dec 2018 *

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