A Decision-Making Tool for Datacenter Migration

Cloud Computing adoption by companies has been steadily growing in recent years. In spite of this, migration to Cloud Computing, or to any other sort of IT solution, must be very carefully weighed and not depend only on “trends”. Bearing this in mind, we proposed and tested a decision-making tool that comprises: (i) a questionnaire to probe a company real IT needs and (ii) a software routine that implements a state-machine algorithm. The questionnaire was sent to the IT managers of twenty companies and, after receiving and inputting the answers to the state-machine based routine, it has been found 52% of the companies were not using the best choice of datacenter.