P-TOSCA Portability of SOA Applications

Abstract

Even more frequently, the customers express their increasing need to change the cloud provider and/or the operating cloud environment in order to avoid vendor lock-in. We analyze portability as the transferability of an application from on-premise onto a cloud (migration) and among different clouds (porting). The contribution of this paper is twofold: 1) demonstration of the P-TOSCA model for automated migration and porting of SOA applications onto a cloud and/or switch between cloud providers, and 2) evaluation of a significant time reduction in migration and porting.