A Proposed Conceptual Framework to Migrate Microsoft Technology Based Applications to Cloud Environment

Abstract

With the evolution of ICT in different business domain, it has become essential to almost all the IT project stakeholders to move applications into cloud for saving IT cost and ensuring sustainability of IT solutions for future. On this fact, it is already proven that cloud implementation has given ample opportunity to reduce overall IT cost of the organization. In cloud implementation, Project stakeholders would have to bear only cost which is project owners ought to pay according to uses of IT resources on pay-per-use cost model. But, in the cloud implementation journey, the most impacting and challenging activity is to do migration of existing application to cloud platform smoothly without interruption of existing application’s user’s experiences and on-going business activities. In this study, authors’ main focus is to propose conceptual framework for assisting to do migration of IT projects in cloud platform. This generic framework will mostly cover End to End processes which require migrating Microsoft based technology applications those are mostly developed in Dot Net and SQL server technology and deployed in Internet Information Server (IIS). The holistic objective of the proposed framework is to facilitate business to provide faster, more reliable, robust and cost effective migration process. This study also has taken in scope to develop very simple proof of concept (POC) to do some sort of validity of the proposed idea.