RT Journal Article
T1 From infrastructure delivery to service management in clouds
A1 Rodero Merino, Luis
A1 Vaquero, Luis M.
A1 Gil, Victor
A1 Galán, Fermín
A1 Fontán, Javier
A1 Montero, Ruben S.
A1 Llorente, Ignacio M.
AB Clouds have changed the way we think about IT infrastructure management. Providers of software-based services are now able to outsource the operation of the hardware platforms required by those services. However, as the utilization of cloud platforms grows, users are realizing that the implicit promise of clouds (leveraging them from the tasks related with infrastructure management) is not fulfilled. A reason for this is that current clouds offer interfaces too close to that infrastructure, while users demand functionalities that automate the management of their services as a whole unit. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new abstraction layer closer to the lifecycle of services that allows for their automatic deployment and escalation depending on the service status (not only on the infrastructure). This abstraction layer can sit on top of different cloud providers, hence mitigating the potential lock-in problem and allowing the transparent federation of clouds for the execution of services. Here, we present Claudia, a service management system that implements such an abstraction layer, and the results of the deployment of a grid service (based on the Sun Grid Engine software) on such system.
PB Elsevier
SN 0167-739X
YR 2010
FD 2010-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42722
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42722
LA eng
NO Unión Europea. FP7
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 abr 2024