Authors:
Salvatore Venticinque
;
Alba Amato
and
Beniamino Di Martino
Affiliation:
Second University of Naples, Italy
Keyword(s):
Cloud Agency, Negotiation, Monitoring.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Autonomic Computing
;
Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
;
Cloud Interoperability
;
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
;
Cloud Standards
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Fundamentals
;
Mobility
;
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
In the Cloud scenario provisioning and monitoring play an important role giving the possibility to maintain
always the best resources configuration that satisfies the application requirements. Dynamic Cloud provisioning
and monitoring allow for the possibility of getting resources in a way that is suited especially well to
the business model of IT companies, which can adapt their costs to the current needs continuously and easily.
A solution for Cloud resource provisioning and monitoring should also be vendor independent, platform
neutral to choose the best proposal among a collection of business offers the widest it is possible. One of
the first proposals of standard in Cloud is represented by OCCI (Open Cloud Computing Interface) that is a
protocol and API for all kinds of management tasks. In this paper we describe a proposal of extension of
OCCI to support provisioning, monitoring and reconfiguration. Furthermore we introduce Cloud Agency, a
software platform that complements the
common IAAS management facilities with a set of advanced services
for dynamic provisioning and monitoring of Cloud resources.
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