Cloud Migration Techniques, Migration Phases and Cloud Storage Gateway

Several organizations are moving their
applications to the private or public cloud. The driving
motivation is to use scalable infrastructure, state-of -
the-art, get rid of internal IT baggage and find time to
focus on core business development. The companies are
shaping their path ahead, starting with a few acute
applications to move to the cloud. The degree of success
and smoothness during migration depends on three
factors such as efforts and inducement of the migration
team, Easiness of the application architecture and how
loosely the application is linked with other internal
services. There are various other factors which would
cause you to fail or succeed in migration. Those include
socio-political aspects within the company and whether
you have unanimous support executive management
and all stakeholders. The non-technical factors are also
vibrant for the success of migration. This paper deals
with various techniques of Cloud Migration, Phases
during the Migration of an Application to the cloud and
the benefits of Cloud Storage Gateway (CSG). A data
migration technique has been adapted by users to have
improved security services and to guarantee that their
data is safe on the cloud. So there is necessity of
additional secure mechanism to migrate the data over
the cloud and henceforth numerous mechanisms have
been proposed.