FAST ROUTE to Cloudification

This paper presents a methodical approach to effectively designing real-world Cloud solutions that facilitate migration to a paradigm of a robust and industrialized Cloud ecosystem. To systemize the development of Cloud services and a federated fabric, a holistic framework is constructed, composed of Foundation, Applicability, Strategization, Transformation roadmapping, Reference models, Operationalization, Unification, Tooling, and Ecosystem (FAST ROUTE). This comprehensive method enables the pragmatic Cloudification of existing IT environments for a rightly-paced transformation, which accelerates the maturing of the Cloud technology to deliver faster, better, cheaper, and more secure Cloud services. Working examples and case studies are examined and demonstrated in the discussion.