Method and system of migrating applications to a cloud-computing environment

1. A computer-implemented method for server migration comprising:

providing an onsite system that comprises a server;

providing a storage appliance;

coupling the storage appliance with the onsite system;

creating a bootable server image;

storing the bootable server image on the storage appliance;

migrating the bootable server image to a cloud-computing environment using the storage appliance;

generating a version of the bootable server image in the cloud-computing environment; and

providing an incremental change occurring during the migration of the bootable server image to a cloud-computing environment; and

wherein an incremental data is deduped into a set of deduped data chunks managed by a deduplication database, wherein the bootable server image is associated with a dedupe metadata in the cloud computing environment and wherein the set of deduped data chunks is replicated and stored in the cloud-computing environment.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the deduplication database comprises a list of the set of deduped data chunks and the set of deduped data chunks.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the list of the set of deduped data chunks is stored in a local cache storage of the onsite system.

4. A method of migrating applications to a cloud-computing environment comprising:

attaching a deduplication database to a dedupe data chunk storage of a bootable server image;

detaching the dedupe chunk storage from the deduplication database;

migrating the dedupe chunk storage to a cloud-computing environment;

tracking, with the deduplication database, a data change that occurs during the migration of the dedupe chunk storage; and

associating the bootable server image with a dedupe metadata in the cloud computing environment.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the bootable server image associated with the dedupe metadata in the cloud computing environment is utilized as a server recovery tool.

6. A computerized system for migrating applications to a cloud-computing environment comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute instructions;

at least one memory containing instructions when executed on the processor, causes the processor to perform operations that:

attach a deduplication database to a dedupe data chunk storage of a bootable server image;

detach the dedupe chunk storage from the deduplication database;

migrate the dedupe chunk storage to a cloud-computing environment;

track, with the deduplication database, a data change that occurs during the migration of the dedupe chunk storage; and

associate the bootable server image with a dedupe metadata in the cloud computing environment.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the bootable server image associated with the dedupe metadata in the cloud computing environment is utilized as a server recovery tool.