Article: A taxonomic view of cloud computing services Journal: International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) 2015 Vol.11 No.1 pp.17 - 28 Abstract: With the massive adoption of cloud computing, a growing number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) now have the opportunity, together with the immediate goal of reducing cost, to effectively expose their services or group themselves into clusters or virtual enterprises in order to build and expose customised offerings. Different requirements, ranging from interoperability and portability, provisioning and reconfiguration, security and privacy, or monitoring and auditing, can all be controlled through the lifecycle support of cloud services and grouped under the umbrella of different virtual enterprises. A semantic support is essential to enable such an entity, and to foster collaboration among different virtual enterprises by providing specific mechanisms by which the construction of complex services from elementary building blocks can be made possible. At the same time it actively supports tasks like automation of cloud resource usage, efficient monitoring and scaling of cloud services, either individually or based on specific dependencies, or replacement and termination of services when the initial offers are no longer available. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: A taxonomic view of cloud computing services

Authors: Teodor-Florin Fortiş; Victor Ion Munteanu; Viorel Negru

Addresses: Research Institute e-Austria, Bvd. V. Pârvan, 4, 300223, Timişoara, Romania ' Research Institute e-Austria, Bvd. V. Pârvan, 4, 300223, Timişoara, Romania ' West University of Timişoara, Bvd. V. Pârvan, 4, 300223, Timişoara, Romania

Abstract: With the massive adoption of cloud computing, a growing number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) now have the opportunity, together with the immediate goal of reducing cost, to effectively expose their services or group themselves into clusters or virtual enterprises in order to build and expose customised offerings. Different requirements, ranging from interoperability and portability, provisioning and reconfiguration, security and privacy, or monitoring and auditing, can all be controlled through the lifecycle support of cloud services and grouped under the umbrella of different virtual enterprises. A semantic support is essential to enable such an entity, and to foster collaboration among different virtual enterprises by providing specific mechanisms by which the construction of complex services from elementary building blocks can be made possible. At the same time it actively supports tasks like automation of cloud resource usage, efficient monitoring and scaling of cloud services, either individually or based on specific dependencies, or replacement and termination of services when the initial offers are no longer available.

Keywords: semantic cloud; cloud computing; cloud brokerage; service ontology; cloud services; cloud taxonomy; cloud management; cloud governance; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; SME clusters; virtual enterprises.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.071360

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.11 No.1, pp.17 - 28

Received: 06 Feb 2013
Accepted: 23 May 2013
Published online: 22 Aug 2015 *

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