Service Oriented Infrastructures and Cloud Service Platforms for the Enterprise

by Dimitrakos, Theo; Martrat, Josep; Wesner, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9783642040856
• ISBN10: 3642040853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Service Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across-enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated by the BEinGRID consortium in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Motivation	p. 1
The BEinGRID Project	p. 4
The BEinGRID Matrix	p. 5
Common Capabilities for SOI and Cloud Services	p. 8
Life-Cycle Management of Virtual Organizations	p. 9
Federated Identity and Access Management	p. 11
Common Capabilities for Managing Software Licenses	p. 17
Common Capabilities for Managing Service Level Agreements	p. 18
Common Capabilities for Data Management	p. 22
Common Capabilities for Data and Service Portals	p. 23
An Example that Brings it all Together	p. 25
About the Contents and Structure of this Book	p. 28
References	p. 30
Approach Towards Technical Innovations for Service Oriented Infrastructures and Clouds	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
High-Level Objectives	p. 34
The Innovation Delivery Process	p. 36
Elicitation of Common Technical Requirements	p. 39
Thematic Areas	p. 40
Prioritisation of Common Technical Requirements	p. 43
Common Capabilities and Design Patterns	p. 44
Generic Components: Reference Implementations of Common Capabilities	p. 46
References	p. 47
Management of Virtual Organizations	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
The Main Challenges	p. 50
Technical Requirements	p. 52
Secure Federation	p. 52
Separation of Infrastructure Management Capabilities from Application Specific Ones	p. 53
Automatic Resource and Service Discovery	p. 53
Common Capabilities	p. 53
VO Set Up	p. 54
Creation of Instances in Service Oriented Distributed Infrastructures	p. 56
Application Virtualization	p. 58
Automatic Resource/Service Discovery	p. 61
A Sample Scenario and Integrated View of the Components	p. 63
VO Identification & Formation	p. 65
VO Creation	p. 67
VO Operation and Evolution	p. 67
VO Dissolution	p. 68
Lessons Learnt	p. 68
Business Benefits	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 71
References	p. 72
Aspects of General Security & Trust	p. 75
Introduction	p. 75
The Overall Challenge	p. 78
Business Motivation	p. 80
Technical Requirements	p. 81
Primary Security Requirements	p. 82
Distributed Systems Security	p. 83
Adaptive Enforcement	p. 84
Data Protection & Infrastructure Security	p. 84
SOA Security Governance	p. 85
Common Capabilities	p. 85
Overview	p. 85
Identity Brokerage & Secure Federation Management	p. 86
Access Control & Authorization	p. 90
Secure Messaging Gateway	p. 94
Security Observer	p. 96
The SOI Governance Gateway (SOI-GGW)	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 100
References	p. 102
Management for Service Level Agreements	p. 103
The Overall Challenge	p. 103
Technical Requirements	p. 104
SLA Negotiation	p. 105
SLA Optimisation of Resource Selection	p. 106
SLA Evaluation	p. 107
SLA Accounting	p. 109
Common Capabilities	p. 110
SLA Negotiation Capability	p. 111
SLA Optimisation Capability	p. 114
SLA Evaluation and Monitoring	p. 116
Motivation	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 119
Lessons Learned	p. 120
Recommendations	p. 122
References	p. 123
License Management	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
The Overall Challenge	p. 125
Technical Requirements	p. 126
Gridification of Currently Used License Management Systems	p. 126
Limited License Service Provider (LSP) Capability	p. 127
Common Capabilities	p. 128
LM Authorization	p. 129
Extension of Job Description and Submission	p. 132
Resource Management Extension	p. 133
Encapsulation of License Server	p. 134
Accounting and Billing	p. 135
LM Monitor	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 137
Lessons Learnt	p. 137
Recommendations	p. 138
References	p. 138
Data Management	p. 141
Introduction	p. 141
The Overall Challenge	p. 142
Technical Requirements	p. 143
Accessing Data from Different Locations	p. 144
Accessing Heterogeneous Data	p. 145
Respond to Changes of Data in a Database	p. 146
Common Capabilities	p. 147
Access to Remote Data Sources	p. 147
Homogenise Data Sources	p. 150
Synchronise Multiple Data Sources	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 156
Recommendations	p. 156
References	p. 157
Portals for Service Oriented Infrastructures	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
The Overall Challenge	p. 160
Common Capabilities and Technical Requirements	p. 161
User Management	p. 162
Portals Security	p. 165
File Management	p. 169
Job Submission Monitoring and Control	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 176
References	p. 177
Bringing it all Together	p. 179
Business Benefits and Innovations per Thematic Area	p. 179
VO Management	p. 179
SLA Management	p. 181
License Management	p. 183
Data Management	p. 184
Security	p. 185
Portals	p. 188
Analysis of Technical Requirements	p. 189
Overview of Common Technical Capabilities	p. 192
Integration Scenarios	p. 195
The Federated ASP Scenario	p. 195
The Collaborative Engineering Scenario	p. 203
References	p. 209
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