Report on Education or Network Migration: Software Evaluation

This report investigates software packages that support education or network migration, focusing on cloud migration, data migration, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). It begins by introducing the concept of migration and its importance in a culturally diverse knowledge environment, highlighting the need for effective resource management. The report then explores available software solutions, including migration application management, SDN, data migration, and cloud migration. Three software packages—Cloud Migration, Data Migration, and Migration Application Management—were selected for detailed evaluation, with the report setting up evaluation criteria and weighting criteria. The report includes a critical review of each software package, along with an evaluation matrix to determine which software package is most suitable for supporting education or network migration processes. The analysis includes a discussion of the results, potential problems and pitfalls, and concludes with recommendations for the most effective software solutions. The report also provides a justification for the weighting criteria used in the evaluation and includes a chart to compare the software against the evaluation criteria. The findings suggest that the report is a valuable resource for understanding the complexities and challenges of migration in educational or network settings.

Running head: EDUCATION OR NETWORK MIGRATION
Education or Network Migration
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Executive Summary
The report aims at investigating about the education or network migration. It introduces about
the available software packages for the migration based on which significant investigation
was done that provide information about at least three or more software packages. Of the
available software some of them were selected for evaluation. A critical review was
undertaken for at least three of the software from the mention software. An evaluation will be
done to set the criteria and discussed about the weighting criteria. An evaluation matrix has
been set up. Justification will be provided for each software that has weighting criteria. The
result will be finally discussed with their pitfalls and problems. Finally, the paper will
conclude with a recommendation.

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Table of Contents
Aim.............................................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Significance of the Investigation................................................................................................4
Available Software.....................................................................................................................4
Selected Software for Evaluation...............................................................................................5
Critical Review...........................................................................................................................6
Evaluation Criteria.....................................................................................................................7
Weighting Criteria......................................................................................................................8
Evaluation Matrix.......................................................................................................................8
Software Evaluation.............................................................................................................10
Weighting Criteria Justification...............................................................................................11
Discussion................................................................................................................................11
Results..................................................................................................................................11
Problems and Pitfalls............................................................................................................12
Recommendations....................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14
Appendixes...............................................................................................................................17

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Aim
The main aim of the report is getting the software packages which evaluate the software
capabilities, processes and integrate with the software. It will demonstrate the way to support
the process of education or network migration.
Introduction
Migration increases within the culturally diverse knowledge with processes that are
effective and social in nature. This resources include information technology, inventory,
financial and production resources. Around 232 million or more people internationally
migrate from all over the world (Dekker and Engbersen 2014). Migrant networks linked
inextricably to the process of migration through the modern forms of communication. Thus,
the concept of “uprooted migrant” has studied migration and found it disruptive (Xiang and
Lindquist 2014). Sometimes there may be migrants important for transnational and local
networks (Massey 2015). Contemporary, scholarly migration itself process the migration
which develops the trade opportunities. An individual gather social networks to bind the
newcomers together and get resources through immigrant communities (Khondoker et al.
2014).
The software packages that support the process of educational or network migration
have got subscription in the format of a cloud-based or traditional server (Comola and
Mendola, 2015). The software packages for the education or network migration include
1. Migration application management
2. Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
3. Data Migration
4. Cloud Migration

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The report main objective is to study about the available software packages processing
the educational or network migration. It defines the criteria for evaluation of selective
software packages and determine which software package is more suitable to support the
educational or network migration process (Groutsis, van den Broek and Harvey 2015). From
the research report, the outcome of the migration could be understood with the use of
different types of software packages.
Significance of the Investigation
The investigation highlights the influence of the process of educational or network
migration. There are various educational institute which contains resources of their own that
need to be prioritize with migration institute (Parsons and Vézina 2018). The application of
the software could be a problematic one that aid to effective information. The operational
cost increases steadily whose resources and budgets are limited for the organizations. Thus,
the limitation is significantly highlighted for the migration.
Available Software
Migration application management:
It improves the efficiencies of the applications and transform the business that could
adapt IT environment changes. Application Migration is mostly for applications that are for
custom-written. The application code is normalizing to modify for recompilation and have a
different Operating System (OS) to support new hardware platform. Application Migration is
an application that modify the code provided by the existing OS for the Application
Programming Interfaces (API) (Shin et al. 2016).
Software-Defined Networking (SDN):
The architecture for Software-Defined Networking aims at flexible and
network agile. The SDN main goal is to improve the control of the network that enables the

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service providers and the enterprises to respond to the requirements of the business that has
changes (Munshi 2014). The administrator or the network engineer of software-defined
network shape the traffic by consoling the network switches individually. The network
services deliver SDN controller directly as needed with regard to some specific connections
(Nunes et al. 2014). In this process, the traditional network architecture moves to individual
network devices to make the traffic decisions which is based on the tables that have
configured the routing (Toma and Vause 2014).
Data Migration:
For the institution of higher education, the process of data migration differs for
each database. The type of data can be Admissions, Career Development, Student Record or
Biographical. Different treatment is required for each data type, most of the vendors’
import biographical data through standard process. For small schools with 100 students’
manual entry of the information are manageable with the organization that doesn’t need the
historical data. The system put full records from the students’ current activity. The other
option for data migration is getting files like Word, Excel or .pdf format that could access the
data.
Cloud Migration:
The process of Cloud Migration entail to migrate the infrastructure of the total
organization which transfer the storage, computing, platform and software for accessing them
to cloud. It has facilitated flexible cloud computing with on-site IT infrastructure containing
hybrid cloud solution. In the hybrid cloud more than one cloud providers provide on-demand
space for the server, services and applications.
Selected Software for Evaluation
Cloud Migration:

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Cloud migration store critical data for cloud environments. The migration complexity
exacerbated the fact for legacy applications to develop attribute for cloud environments. The
community for cloud computing has enable applications for legacy through which cloud
services could be utilized. There are new challenges that improve the conventional software
and address some specific requirements for enabling cloud-enabled legacy application for
cloud services.
Data Migration:
With emerging platform of big data in the market, education or network are looking to
migrate the data from the current platform of relational database management to the structure
of big data storage. However, there is a complexity in the large data migration for running
into trouble. In data migration, the source database is basically transfer to target database in
the target system.
Critical Review
Migration application management:
For every education institute or network, disruption and risk mitigation are critical for
large-scale application migration. The migration of the application in the organization adhere
the business – driven requirement for long term data center strategy (Baláž, Williams and
Fifeková 2016). The capacity is not just increasing the global strategy of the data center.
There are key strategic elements that delivered data through application migration for mass
migrations.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN):

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With the SDN technology, Security has become a concern for the migration. The
controller of SDN points to failure which target to the attacker. In the networking industry
various approaches where made to SDN which range from the platforms of virtualization to
the hardware-centric models for designing of the network and methods that are not
controllable (Goodall, Newman and Ward 2014). The adoption of SDN was relatively slow
for the network enterprises which only contains some fewer resources. Here, the primary
deterring factor is the cost of SDN deployment. The technology that have emerge tackle and
contribute the resources adopted from SDN network operators and service providers.
Cloud Migration:
In migration of data to cloud, a response of failures has been experience in Hybrid
cloud where companies desire availability, latency and security equivalency which are not
satisfying the hybrid model (Ahmed et al. 2015). The components of the services get differ
with equivalence demands that are appropriately used by the cloud with high security. One of
the consequences that was found in cloud migration is that the users attempt for services
contract without knowing its necessity in the future.
Evaluation Criteria
Criteria Query
Skills assessment Qualification equivalent to degree to have successfully study the
competency areas to meet the requirement.
Provisional
assessment
To get a positive result to have successfully studied meet the
requirement.
Degree Requirement To meet skills assessment that need a qualification as equivalent
to comparability of overseas qualifications. The requirement of
the provisional assessment could meet the degree requirement.

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Competency areas Competency area of the provisional and general requirements
skills meet the need to get the required qualifications
Weighting Criteria
Criteria
Participan
t 1
Participan
t 2
Participan
t 3
Participan
t 4
Weighti
ng
Ability to demonstrate 4 5 5 6 5
Ability to secure 5 3 1 3 3
Ease of integration 7 2 3 5 4.25
Ease of use 6 2 2 2 3
Manageability 5 3 5 4 4.25
Extensibility 1 3 3 5 3
Desire to meet
capabilities 2 1 4 4 2.75
Functional
Requirement 5 2 2 1 2.5
One-time cost 4 0 1 3 2
Ongoing cost 0 0 0 1 0.25
Recoverability 4 3 3 3 3.25
Scalability 1 5 2 4 3
Time to value 2 4 5 3 3.5
Evaluation Matrix
Software Evaluation
Skills 1 2 3 4 5

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assessment
Provisional
assessment
Little to no
provisional
assessment
Low
provisional
assessment
Moderate
provisional
assessment
High
provisional
assessment
High
Considerable
provisional
assessment
Degree
Requirement
High degree
requirement
High to
moderate
degree
requirement
moderate
degree
requirement
moderate to
low degree
requirement
low degree
requirement
Competency
areas
Considerably
low
competency
requirement
low
competency
requirement
moderate
competency
requirement
high
competency
requirement
Considerably
high
competency
requirement
Cost
Considerably
high cost
high cost moderate
cost
low cost considerably
low cost
Notification
little to no
features of
notification
low features
of
notification
Moderate
features of
notification
high
features of
notification
considerably
features of
notification
Training
Little features
of training
Low
features of
training
moderate
features of
training
high
features of
training
considerably
high features
of training
Support Little support
Low
support
moderate
support high support
considerably
high support
Platform
Limited
amount of
Low
amount of
Moderate
amount of
high amount
of available
Considerably
high amount

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available
platform
available
platform
available
platform
platform of available
platform
Software Evaluation
Migration application management
Software-Defined Networking
Data Migration
Total
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Chart Title
Total Training and
Support Notification
Cost Competency areas Degree Requirement
Provisional assessment Skills assessment
Software Evaluation Migration
application
managemen
t
Software-
Defined
Networking
Data
Migration Total
Criteria
Weighti
ng
Sco
re
Rati
ng
Sco
re
Rati
ng
Sco
re
Rati
ng
Sco
re
Rati
ng
Skills assessment 0.12 2 0.7 3 0.5 2 0.7 5 0.15
Provisional
assessment 0.12 4 0.5 5 0.3 5 0.5 5 0.15
Degree
Requirement 0.12 3 0.3 3 0.4 3 0.3 5 0.15
Competency areas 0.12 5 0.4 6 0.4 4 0.5 5 0.15

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Cost 0.02 4 0.2 4 0.3 5 0.3 5 0.15
Notification 0.05 2 0.5 2 0.5 2 0.2 5 0.15
Training and
Support 0.05 3 0.5 5 0.5 3 0.4 5 0.15
Total 100% 23 3.1 28 2.9 24 3.7 35 1.05
Weighting Criteria Justification
Ranking Criteria Weighting
1 Provisional assessment 29%
2 Degree Requirement 29%
3 Competency areas 12%
4 Cost 12%
5 Notification 5%
6 Training 5%
7 Support 4%
8 Platform 4%
Total 100%
Discussion
Results

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The software that were selected for evaluation has demonstrated the performance of the
selected software with proficiency. The selected software was ranked based on the review of
the criteria of the software evaluation as shown below:
 Migration application management = 3.1/5
 Software-Defined Networking = 2.9/5
 Data Migration= 3.7/5
It is realized that evaluation criteria, the characteristic of the individual, and the adopted
weighting scores rank for the software packages that are weighted.
Problems and Pitfalls
The adoption of software package for education and network migration has many
problems with their pitfalls that could rise but ultimately remains a struggle. (Czaika and De
Haas 2014). The primary concern for education and network migration is the cost while
determining which software package is suitable for migration. Thus, the need of software
package should be cost effective and affordable. The value of education and network
migration could build opportunities for the organization (Bartfai-Walcott et al. 2014). The
benefits are associated when realize that the software implementation support the process of
education and software migration. Failure for software integration is prove to be costly and
require software packages that are compatible.
While choosing for a software in education or network migration, it should be
accessible for the server location (Weingärtner, Bräscher and Westphall 2015). The
educational institute may face resistance for being using the software in migration. In this
case, the prescribed requirement would not be fulfilling from the software that was adopted
and is finally considered to be redundant.

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Recommendations
There are lot of software that required careful planning for migration of the projects to
envisage for cloud migration as the traditional way of developing the software. With cloud
migration data get transit to cloud and could identify on-premise enterprise server to the
cloud. The strategy requires for migration of software need to have cloud-based environment
that could refer to custom-built applications like Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure, or Force.com. In software Migration efficiency improve and
organizations virtualize the software and sandboxes the runtime. This type of Migrations increases
the speed for new functionality. Another software package that could be involve is the Database
migration that maintains the operating system and setup its own software. With Database
Migration the existing servers get upgrade or replace to relocate the data center and perform the
server maintenance for physical location.

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Appendixes
The figure below shows the way of migration that can be done through software packages for
education or networking.
Figure 1: Edit Visa Application
Source: (Docs.plesk.com, 2018)
Figure 2: Status Report of the Visa Application
Source: (Docs.plesk.com, 2018)

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Figure 3: Final list of the Visa application
Source: (Docs.plesk.com, 2018)
Figure 4: Application Management Migration Cycle
Source: (Application Management in the 21st Century, 2018)

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