[Isod-bof] Technical report on Cloud IaaS Architecture by SNE at UvA

[Yuri Demchenko]

Dear All,

This might be interesting for you to know that recently SNE group at UvA 
has published a technical report on the Generic Architecture for Cloud 
IaaS model, Release 1
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http://staff.science.uva.nl/~demch/worksinprogress/sne2011-techreport-2011-03-clouds-iaas-architecture-release1.pdf 


This is a result of our ongoing research on Cloud computing with 
primarily focus on Cloud IaaS service model in the framework of a few 
European and national projects, first of all, GN3 JRA3 Composable 
Services, GEYSERS, and NOVI who are already contributing to ISOD-RG 
activity.

The proposed architectural framework is primarily focused on Cloud IaaS 
design and consists of the 3 major components:
* Composable Services Architecture (CSA) that intends to provide a 
conceptual and methodological framework for developing dynamically 
configurable virtualised infrastructure services;
* Infrastructure Services Modeling Framework (ISMF) that provides a 
basis for the infrastructure resources virtualisation and management, 
including description, discovery, modeling, composition and monitoring;
* Service Delivery Framework (SDF) that provides a basis for defining 
the whole composable services life cycle management and supporting 
infrastructure services.

At current stage we are interested in comparing our architecture against 
other existing and being developed frameworks. In particular we already 
established cooperation with the current NIST Cloud Computing Reference 
Architecture development.

We will be happy also to contribute this research to ISOD-RG as a basis 
for some discussions on defining infrastructure services, use cases, 
provisioning models and related issues.

We will appreciate comments and contribution.

Regards,

Yuri Demchenko
System and Network Engineering Group
University of Amsterdam