Authors:
Nane Kratzke
1
;
Peter-Christian Quint
2
;
Derek Palme
3
and
Dirk Reimers
4
Affiliations:
1
Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
;
2
Lübeck University of Applied Sciences - Center of Excellence for Communication, Systems and Applications (CoSA), Germany
;
3
fat CON.LOGIC GmbH, Germany
;
4
fat IT solutions GmbH, Germany
Keyword(s):
SME, Vendor Lock-In, Container, Elastic Platform, Cloud Computing, Migration, Transferability, Cloud-native Application, CNA.
Abstract:
Cloud computing enables to deliver innovative services very agile and
at world-scale. Even very small companies with access on first class cloud engineering
knowledge can create exponential business growth. Companies like Instagram
or Netflix proofed that impressively. But, operating cloud-native applications
is extremely challenging and overburdens the capabilities of most SME
IT-departments. Sadly, most of current research solution proposals do not focus
on these micro or small companies intentionally. Instead of that, this contribution
presents a concept for an elastic cloud runtime platform, which is intentionally
designed for such small companies. This elastic platform shall provide a transferable,
vendor lock-in avoiding, elastic, manageable and easy-to-adapt cloud runtime
environment (not only) for SMEs, small research groups or non-profit organizations.