A service provisioning and managing framework for Platform as a Service in educational cloud

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of the key services in Cloud computing. It plays an important role in creating reliable, flexible, cost-efficient and open platform for educational system. Several computing platform already exists. However, nearly all current available cloud computing platforms are either proprietary or their software infrastructure is invisible to the research community, for universities and research institutes, more open and testable experimental platforms are needed in a lab-level with PCs. Traditional way of building platform have always been very complicated and expensive, in many IT settings platform get installed at every local PC´s, this process dramatically increase the time and cost of managing, maintaining, and it´s not accessible to user anytime on any device. Instead of developing an individual PC´s, the entire package can be stored in centralized hub, in a cloud environment, and can be accessed any time anywhere, which can be achieved by different level of virtualization. Inspired by these reasons, an XCP based service provisioning and managing framework has been proposed and implemented, that would be an appropriate solution to create an open and flexible platform for educational system.