Method for denominating move groups of applications

A method of staging a move group of applications of a network, comprising:

• developing a reference base of applications by at least one of monitoring traffic flow between devices of the network and accessing information about the applications, wherein the information comprises network statistics;
• with regard to applications of the reference base of applications, classifying each such application as a member of one or more classification sub-sets;
• with regard to each device of a target group of the devices of the network, accessing information about the one or more classification sub-sets of those respective applications executed on the device to form an application classification glossary associated with the device, wherein, within the application glossary associated with each device, each application belonging to a respective classification sub-set is grouped together with all applications that both belong to that same classification sub-set and are hosted on the device;
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• denominating a move group of applications by identifying as a move group at least one of all applications sharing a common membership in a respective classification sub-set and one or more of the applications sharing a common property, wherein the common property comprises a location.