Article in Proceedings INPROC-2008-42

BibliographyMietzner, Ralph; Leymann, Frank: Towards Provisioning the Cloud: On the Usage of Multi-Granularity Flows and Services to Realize a Unified Provisioning Infrastructure for SaaS Applications.
In: Proceedings of the International Congress on Services, SERVICES 2008.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
IEEE, July 2008.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsCloud Computing; SaaS; on Demand; Provisioning
Abstract

The automatic provisioning of applications is an importent 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 provider’s 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.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateMay 26, 2008
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