Cloud computing and RESERVOIR project

The support for complex services delivery is becoming a key point in current internet technology. Current trends in internet applications are characterized by on demand delivery of ever growing amounts of content. The future internet of services will have to deliver content intensive applications to users with quality of service and security guarantees. This paper describes the RESERVOIR project and the challenge of a reliable and effective delivery of services as utilities in a commercial scenario. It starts by analyzing the needs of a future infrastructure provider and introducing the key concept of a service oriented architecture that combines virtualisation-aware grid with grid-aware virtualisation, while being driven by business service management. This article will then focus on the benefits and the innovations derived from the RESERVOIR approach. Eventually, a high level view of RESERVOIR general architecture is illustrated

The RESERVOIR model and architecture for open federated cloud computing

The emerging cloud computing paradigm is rapidly gaining momentum as an alternative to traditional IT. However, contemporary cloud computing offerings are mostly geared towards Web 2.0 style applications and only recently have begun to address the needs of enterprise-grade solutions, such as support for infrastructure-level SLAs. To address the challenges and deficiencies in the current state of the art, we propose a modular, extensible cloud architecture with intrinsic support for Business Service Management (BSM) and federation of clouds. Our goal is to facilitate an open, service-based, on-line economy, where resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed across clouds on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with high quality of service. We present the vision driving the RESERVOIR project- an architecture that allows providers of cloud infrastructure to dynamically partner with each other to create a seemingly infinite pool of IT resources while fully preserving the autonomy of technological and business management decisions. To this end, RESERVOIR leverages and extends the advantages of virtualization and embeds autonomous management into the infrastructure. At the same time, the RESERVOIR approach aims to achieve a very ambitious goal- creating a foundation for next-generation enterprise-grade cloud computing.

Design for future internet service infrastructures,” in Towards the Future Internet - A European Research Perspective

Abstract. This paper presents current research in the design and integration of advance systems, service and management technologies into a new generation of Service Infrastructure for Future Internet of Services, which includes Service Clouds Computing. These developments are part of the FP7 RESERVOIR project and represent a creative mixture of service and network virtualisation, service computing, network and service management techniques