Authors:
Andreas Menychtas
1
;
Dimosthenis Kyriazis
1
;
Spyridon Gogouvitis
1
;
Karsten Oberle
2
;
Thomas Voith
2
;
Georgina Galizo
3
;
Sören Berger
3
;
Eduardo Oliveros
4
and
Michael Boniface
5
Affiliations:
1
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
;
2
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany
;
3
HLRS - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
;
4
Telefónica I+D, Spain
;
5
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Cloud computing, Cloud architecture, Cloud platform, Software as a service, Platform as a service, Infrastructure as a service, Real-time, Service oriented.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Architectures and Services
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Fundamentals
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
;
Performance Development and Management
;
Platforms and Applications
;
SAAS, PAAS, IAAS
;
Service-Oriented Architectures
;
Services Science
;
Software Engineering
;
Technology Platforms
;
Virtualization Technologies
Abstract:
Cloud Computing is considered nowadays as the future of ICT systems leveraging new methodologies for developing, providing and consuming services. Even though many people believe that “Cloud” is just another buzzword for utility computing, this new computing paradigm is not only changing the design of modern computing platforms in technical level, but it also impels, from the market perspective, the creation of new value chains and business models. Beyond the great advantages of cloud technologies for scalability, elasticity and low operational cost, there are still many technical complexities and limitations on provisioning and management of applications with high QoS demands that disallow the wide adoption of cloud solutions. In this paper we present a novel cloud platform capable to support real-time interactive applications considering their full lifecycle including service engineering, SLA negotiation, provisioning and monitoring. This platform has been designed and implemented
consolidating management and control of the infrastructure and services at all points in the value chain to support real-time interaction focusing on its business and commercial orientation.
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