Towards Provisioning the Cloud: On the Usage of Multi-Granularity Flows and Services to Realize a Unified Provisioning Infrastructure for SaaS Applications

Author

Mietzner, Ralph ; Leymann, Frank

Author_Institution

Inst. of Archit. of Applic. Syst., Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

fYear

2008

fDate

6-11 July 2008

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The automatic provisioning of applications is an important task for the success of software as a service (SaaS) providers. Different provisioning engines from different vendors and open source projects with different interfaces have been emerging lately. Additionally, infrastructure providers that provide infrastructure on demand now provide computing resources that can be integrated in a SaaS providerpsilas computing environment. In order to allow SaaS application providers to specify generic installation and maintenance flows independent from the underlying provisioning engines we propose an architecture for a generic provisioning infrastructure based on Web services and workflow technology.

Keywords

Web services; software architecture; software maintenance; SaaS; Web services; generic installation; generic provisioning infrastructure; infrastructure providers; maintenance flows; multigranularity flows; provisioning engines; software as a service provider; workflow technology; Abstracts; Application software; Clouds; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Costs; Environmental management; Probability distribution; Search engines; Web services; BPEL; Multi Granularity Flows; Provisioning; SaaS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services - Part I, 2008. IEEE Congress on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3286-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES-1.2008.36

Filename

4578285