Theo Lynn Lead PI, Business Theme Lead
Project Title
Cloud Interoperability
Start Date
February 2014
Project PI
Professor Theo Lynn
Project Completion
August 2014
Project Description
Interoperability is a key problem to facilitate migration between cloud solutions. Interoperability avoids vendor lock-in and allows cloud consumers to migrate between cloud providers. Interoperability is also a requirement for providers if hybrid cloud mechanism such as cloud bursting or disaster recovery are to be implemented across possibly heterogeneous cloud platforms.
Propose Solutions
A check list of changes that will need to be made to applications to optimise and enhance their use on PaaS. Will initially be implemented manually but can be automated at a later stage, either as an IC4 project or through a member-specific project. Initial focus on Azure PaaS but with goal of broadening to other PaaS platforms.
Current Landscape
Appzero, Racemi, CloudVelocity, SkyKick, River Meadow (SaaS)
Industry Impact
High Impact Results
The project will provide solutions that will speed-up and simplify the process of migrating on-premises applications to a PaaS platform. The ‘impact’ of this research will be to accelerate the rate at which end users move applications to the cloud, leveraging the lower cost and increased performance potential of the cloud. It will also increase trust in the cloud by demonstrating the dependability and QoS of the migrated application.
High Impact Results
– Migrate an open-source application to an Azure platform, both before and after optimisation, in order to quantify benefits of an automated migration tool.
Industry Sponsors
Microsoft, Fujitsu