ARTIST Methodology and Framework: A Novel Approach for the Migration of Legacy Software on the Cloud

Abstract

Nowadays Cloud Computing is considered as the ideal environment for engineering, hosting and provisioning applications. A continuously increasing set of cloud-based solutions is available to application owners and developers to tailor their applications exploiting the advanced features of this paradigm for elasticity, high availability and performance. Even though these offerings provide many benefits to new applications, they often incorporate constrains to the modernization and migration of legacy applications by obliging the use of specific development technologies and explicit architectural design approaches. The modernization and adaptation of legacy applications to cloud environments is a great challenge for all involved stakeholders, not only from the technical perspective, but also in business level with the need to adapt the business processes and models of the modernized application that will be offered from now on, as a service. In this paper we present a novel model-driven approach for the migration of legacy applications in modern cloud environments which covers all aspects and phases of the migration process, as well as an integrated framework that supports all migration process.

Software Migration Frameworks for Software System Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review

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A Survey of Cloud Migration Methods: A Comparison and Proposition

“…The project ARTIST (Advanced Software-based Service Provisioning and Migration of Legacy Software) covers a process to modernize legacy systems by providing migration method suitable to the Cloud [20]. The major outcomes have been treated by ARTIST:…”

Automation and orchestration framework for large-scale enterprise cloud migration

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