VisualREST: A Content Management System for Cloud Computing Environment

The amount of digital content is increasing at an accelerating speed. This content is distributed to a heterogeneous set of users´ devices and handling the content manually is an unsustainable solution and soon leads to a increasing problem. We have studied the most crucial concepts of content management systems and how the distributed environment affects them. Moreover, we have investigated technologies that can be used to implement a content management system in a distributed environment. Based on these, this paper introduces the Visual REST content management system that provides a uniform way to manage the content stored in all of the devices with the same user-friendly and efficient principles. As with other cloud computing systems, also Visual REST abstracts away the physical structure and complicated processes from user perspective.