Avoiding cloud fall: A systematic approach to cloud migration

Abstract

In 2011, the White House recognized the enormous opportunity for the United States government to increasingly migrate to the cloud, which NIST has defined as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. In other words, the cloud is not one thing, but rather a collection of resources and services on other people's computers. This guide explores a scaled approach to cloud migration to avoid cloud fall