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Platform as a Service (PaaS) has become a strong technological solution in particular for small medium enterprises (SMEs) to achieve cost savings and rapid time to market of their software solutions. However, for SMEs how to choose the PaaS provider becomes a bottleneck due to the number of offerings each PaaS vendor offers. Another challenge often faced by enterprises is how to match their software system requirements to PaaS offerings. Furthermore, searching for the best PaaS offering is even more difficult when enterprises need to migrate their existing software solutions from one PaaS vendor to another. In such cases, the portability of the enterprises data and application components becomes cumbersome. If their software solutions are bound to a specific PaaS provider, enterprises suffer from vendor lock-in. This paper addresses these portability challenges by proposing a high-level architecture to ease the portability of software solutions over PaaS vendors taking into consideration the various life-cycle stages, such as identifying and analysing Paas offerings in the market; selecting the best PaaS offering according to organisation’s requirements; and the deployment, management, and monitoring of the software solutions.
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This work is part of the RELATE project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme FP7 with Grant Agreement No. 264840 ITN and the PaasPort European Commision project under the 7th Framework Programme FP7-SME-2013-605193.
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Surajbali, B., Juan-Verdejo, A. (2015). A Marketplace Broker for Platform-as-a-Service Portability. In: Ortiz, G., Tran, C. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 508. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14886-1_24
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