Cloud Resource Orchestration: A Data-Centric Approach

Cloud computing provides users near instant access to seemingly unlimited resources, and provides service providers the opportunity to deploy complex information technology infrastructure, as a service, to their customers. Providers benefit from economies of scale and multiplexing gains afforded by sharing of resources through virtualization of the underlying physical infrastructure. However, the scale and highly dynamic nature of cloud platforms impose significant new challenges to cloud service providers. In particular, realizing sophisticated cloud services requires a cloud control framework that can orchestrate cloud resource provisioning, configuration, utilization and decommissioning across a distributed set of physical resources. In this paper we advocate a data-centric approach to cloud orchestration. Following this approach, cloud resources are modeled as structured data that can be queried by a declarative language, and updated with well-defined transactional semantics. ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CIDR
• Authors: Yun Mao, Changbin Liu, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Mary Fernandez
• Keywords: Algorithms, CIDR 2011, Information Technology Infrastructure, Prototype Implementation, Transactional Semantics