Toward Adapting Metamodeling Approach for Legacy to Cloud Migration

Abstract

Migration of legacy application to Cloud is a fast-growing area of knowledge. Many IT-based organizations inclined toward empowering their legacy application with cloud computing capabilities. Many researchers, academicians, national, and international bodies are creating knowledge models to allow knowledge sharing and provide effective cloud migration model. This knowledge is scattered and huge, but lack of knowledge management. Our motive is to produce a metamodel, which could be able to generalize the cloud migration domain. Metamodel approach is an approach, to gather all domain concepts and their relationships. Using the metamodel, variety of domain solution models can be built. It can act as a language infrastructure which unifies describing the process model of moving legacy enterprise applications to the cloud environments. The benefits of the metamodel include simplifying the migration process, guidance, reuse specialized migration knowledge and support training and knowledge management activities. Furthermore, it reduces complexity and ambiguity in cloud migration domain.