Healthcare application migration in compliant hybrid clouds

Abstract

Key challenges in managing healthcare applications lie in the area of compliance of the deployment environments and the usage of hybrid clouds. Our approach, as reported in this paper, utilizes two innovative concepts: compliance conformance validation and environment reconstruction supported by a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment performing healthcare application automated migrations in hybrid clouds. We show how the migration process is conducted with dynamic reconstruction of the application dependencies on the PaaS services. For system administrators, this approach can lead to significant time savings on migrations to compliant environments. Implementation details and experimental results are presented to validate our methodology.