Migrating a Federated Educational Infrastructure to the Cloud: Lessons Learned from a National Project

11 pages•Published: January 13, 2025

Hendrik Geßner, Dirk Bußler, Duy Nguyen, Holger Zimmermann and Ulrike Lucke

Abstract

The migration of IT services to a cloud infrastructure is complex - depending on the existing service landscape - and requires special awareness. Recommendations and guidelines can help, but must be adapted to the respective context. This article focuses on an example that is research-related and is distributed across institutional boundaries: the prototype of a national networked infrastructure for education currently being developed in Germany. We determine the associated expectations of various stakeholder groups regarding a migration to the cloud, compare these with the current state of the literature and contrast them with our practical experiences gained during the migration. This identifies gaps in existing recommendations that need to be addressed in the future.

Keyphrases: cloud, migration, recommendations

In: Raimund Vogl, Laurence Desnos, Jean-François Desnos, Spiros Bolis, Lazaros Merakos, Gill Ferrell, Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens, vol 105, pages 69-79.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/4KdLp
	https://doi.org/10.29007/wnxv

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2024:Migrating_Federated_Educational_Infrastructure,
  author    = {Hendrik Geßner and Dirk Bußler and Duy Nguyen and Holger Zimmermann and Ulrike Lucke},
  title     = {Migrating a Federated Educational Infrastructure to the Cloud: Lessons Learned from a National Project},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens},
  editor    = {Raimund Vogl and Laurence Desnos and Jean-François Desnos and Spiros Bolis and Lazaros Merakos and Gill Ferrell and Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {105},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/4KdLp},
  doi       = {10.29007/wnxv},
  pages     = {69-79},
  year      = {2025}}

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