Simplifying solution deployment on a Cloud through composite appliances

Author

Chieu, Trieu ; Karve, Alexei ; Mohindra, Ajay ; Segal, Alla

Author_Institution

T J. Watson Res. Center, IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

19-23 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Containing runaway IT costs is one of the top priorities for enterprises. Cloud Computing, with its on-demand provisioning capability on shared resources, has emerged as a new paradigm for managing IT costs. In this paper, we describe a framework to simplify deployment of complex solutions on a Cloud infrastructure. We discuss the concept of a composite appliance and show how it can be used to reduce management costs. We illustrate the benefits of our approach with a complex three-tiered solution that can be deployed and configured on a set of virtual machines instances without any manual intervention.

Keywords

DP management; Internet; IT cost management; cloud computing; cloud infrastructure; composite appliance concept; solution deployment; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Costs; Hardware; Home appliances; Physics computing; Resource management; Resource virtualization; Virtual machining; Composite Appliance; Provisioning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6533-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470721

Filename

5470721