Dependent component cost model of legacy application for hybrid cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging technology employing pay-as-you-go technique helps many enterprises to concentrate on cloud migration. An affordable cost enables several legacy applications to opt for migration. Since legacy applications are made up of distributed components, the migration of all the components to the cloud result in the increase of cloud migration cost. In this paper, several pricing models and pricing types were studied. This paper analyzed several factors affecting the cost of migration and based on the selected cost parameters an optimal formula for estimation of cost was derived.