A Decision-Making Tool for Datacenter Migration

Author

Morais Melo, Marcelo ; Mello Fagotto, Eric Alberto

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Campinas (PUCC), Campinas, Brazil

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

1446

Lastpage

1452

Abstract

Cloud Computing adoption by companies has been steadily growing in recent years. In spite of this, migration to Cloud Computing, or to any other sort of IT solution, must be very carefully weighed and not depend only on “trends”. Bearing this in mind, we proposed and tested a decision-making tool that comprises: (i) a questionnaire to probe a company real IT needs and (ii) a software routine that implements a state-machine algorithm. The questionnaire was sent to the IT managers of twenty companies and, after receiving and inputting the answers to the state-machine based routine, it has been found 52% of the companies were not using the best choice of datacenter.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer centres; decision making; virtualisation; cloud computing adoption; datacenter migration; decision-making tool; software routine; Cloud computing; Companies; Computational modeling; Decision making; Virtual private networks; Cloud Computing; Datacenter; Decision Making; Virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2015.7112001

Filename

7112001