International Business Machines Corporation
OPTIMIZE MIGRATION OF CLOUD NATIVE APPLICATIONS IN A MUTLI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Abstract:

A method for migrating an application includes representing the application as a vector including metadata about the application and at least one customer constraint, scoring a deviation of data consistency for the application related to each of a plurality of clouds, including a cloud in which the application is currently deployed and a plurality of potential target clouds, selecting one of the potential target clouds based on the scoring, wherein the selected cloud has an improved score over the cloud in which the application is current deployed, and migrating the application to the selected cloud.