Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control / Vol. 36, No. 2, 2026

A mobile computing platform for data and virtual machines migration between datacenters and private clouds: Design and use cases

Dan AVRAM, Ioana MATEI, Ioana APOSTOL, Ion BICA, Florin POP

Abstract:

This paper presents a mobile computing platform for secure data and virtual machine migration between different datacenters and private cloud environments. Traditional network-based methods are often constrained by bandwidth, connectivity, and security requirements, especially in isolated or air-gapped scenarios. The proposed solution allows secure offline data transfer by physically moving data while integrating compute, storage, networking, and virtualization capabilities within a mobile architecture. This approach allows conversion, migration and execution of virtual machines between different infrastructures, providing interoperability and continuous operation. The platform is autonomous and designed for use in disaster recovery, field deployments and secure environments with no Internet connectivity. Our work shows that mobile datacenter architectures can be applied in efficient infrastructure-independent migration processes.

Keywords:
Data migration, VM migration, VM conversion, Mobile datacenter.

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Dan AVRAM, Ioana MATEI, Ioana APOSTOL, Ion BICA, Florin POP, "A mobile computing platform for data and virtual machines migration between datacenters and private clouds: Design and use cases", Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control, ISSN 1220-1758, vol. 36(2), pp. 105-119, 2026. https://doi.org/10.33436/v36i2y202608