Paper Info
Title
Defining a Cloud Reference Model
Abstract
The cloud landscape is confusing -- with over 85 "cloud" vendors and various definitions of offerings it is difficult to evaluate services. The Cloud Reference Model brings order to this cloud landscape. The Model divides cloud-based application architecture into seven layers: Application, Transformation, Control, Instantiation, Appliance, Virtual, and Physical. Each layer focuses IT functionality on supporting a specific area of concern and abstracts details of other layers. Then application architecture design becomes an exercise in determining the necessary functionality at each layer -- assessing attributes like performance, security, and reliability is decoupled. Leveraging this approach we examine the "green-ness" of cloud-based architectures for which we assess the carbon footprint of Microsoft's Software-as-a-Service offerings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CCGrid.2011.66
CCGrid
Keywords
Field
DocType
application architecture design,cloud landscape,carbon footprint,specific area,software-as-a-service offering,abstracts detail,necessary functionality,cloud reference model,software architecture,cloud-based application architecture,software-as-a-service,cloud-based architecture,cloud computing,it functionality,cloud-based architectures,computer architecture,computational modeling,software as a service,reference model,transcoding
Applications architecture,Software engineering,Software architecture description,Computer science,Reference architecture,Software architecture,Operating system,Cloud testing,Single-chip Cloud Computer,Service-oriented modeling,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4395-6
6
0.46
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teresa Tung1172.11