CLOUD MIGRATION STRATEGY: REVIEW & RECOMMENDED STRATEGY PROCESS MODEL FOR COMMUNICATION AND IT MINISTRY OF AFGHANISTAN

With regard to the increasing spread of information technology in the world, access to this technology is of great importance. Having an appropriate process for migrating, identifying and ranking activities to prepare and perform the migration design in the organization, prevents the failure of the performance in organizations. Today, there are lots of migration processes in review of literature and this will confuse the managers to choose the most appropriate process for their organization. This article studies the presented processes of migration to the cloud computing environment by presenting novel factors. It also attempts to introduce an appropriate framework to select and model the most efficient process on migration to the cloud computing environment. So that organizations do not have a concern to choose the best migration process and IT managers are able to select the appropriate process for their organizations quickly and with no confusion. This paper is intended to introduce a migration strategy process model which best suits for the current situation of communication and IT ministry of Afghanistan. This paper contains an introduction on cloud computing and cloud migration, literature review of the related works done on migration strategies, also includes some information about Afghanistan communication & information technology ministry, A methodology of selecting and modeling recommended migration strategy, modeling the recommended cloud migration strategy process for Afghanistan communication & IT ministry, conclusion and references list. KeywordsCloud Computing, Migration, Migration Strategy, communication & IT Ministry.