A service oriented framework for cloud computing

Abstract

At the moment, cloud computing has an interesting progression in academic and industrial areas. Many well-known companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM has built their own clouds in addition to many other open source cloud computing platforms and frameworks. There are many characteristics which a cloud should have. Many of the existing platforms and frameworks lack of some of these characteristics, for example most of them cannot really be integrated, all of them just give the user some tools and platforms (such as service bus and development kits), but there is no provided intelligence and automation. This paper proposes a framework that supports all of the mentioned characteristics and some others like low coupling and high integration. The proposed framework not only supports traditional cloud facilities, but using a service, adds intelligence to cloud to provide an automatic environment. To achieve the above mentioned goals, we have founded our framework on SOA (service oriented architecture) that manages data flow with an event driven approach.