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Open Environment for Collaborative Cloud Ecosystems

Authors:
Oleksiy Khriyenko
Michael Cochez

Keywords: collaborative clouds; cloud interoperability; component-based ecosystem infrastructure; semantic integration

Abstract:
Cloud computing can be defined as accessing and utilizing third party software, services and resources and paying as per usage. It facilitates scalability and virtualized resources over the Internet as a service; providing cost effective and scalable solution to customers. There are two emerging methodologies for constructing infrastructure: “Cloudcenters” and “Infrastructure Web Services”. Cloudcenters can be regarded as a virtualized data center. Infrastructure Web Services are more analogous to Service-Oriented-Architectures (SOA), require significant programming skills and are much more comfortable for software developers. It is a robust ecosystem of services which you can use in order to build your application, getting the traditional benefits of Cloud Computing such as self-service, pay-as-you-go, and massive scalability. Unfortunately, talking about openness and interoperability in cloud computing, cloud providers still operate very much in their own silos and private-cloud APIs drift further and further apart. Most data center vendors do not offer users complete vertically integrated cloud stacks. However, they are often providing solutions which imply a strong vendor lock-in. A lot of activities are currently aimed at the development of various Cloud computing environments and software engineering practices for the management of distributed applications, services and other resources. We are thinking about a future vision of a network of clouds. It should be an open market for components (applications, services, data sources, etc.) and composed ecosystem infrastructure services that facilitate appropriate collaboration for personalized needs. In this paper we would like to slightly modify the original cloud stack towards the development of an open environment for task-oriented personalized cloud ecosystems and apply a resource integration platform for this ecosystem elaboration.

Pages: 147 to 153

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-153-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011