Towards Automatic Application Migration to Clouds

Porting applications to Clouds is one of the key challenges in software industry. The available approaches to perform this task are basically either services derived from alliances of major software vendors and Cloud providers focusing on their own products, or small platform providers focusing on the most popular software stacks. For migrating other types of software, the options are limited to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions which require a lot of programming effort for adapting the software to a Cloud provider's API. Moreover, if it must be deployed in different providers, new integration procedures must be designed and implemented which could be a nightmare. This paper presents a solution for facilitating the migration of any application to the cloud, inferring the most suitable deployment model for the application and automatically deploying it in the available Cloud providers.