Name:S-Sicilia
Description:It is commonly recognised that nowadays a large part of business processes are carried out through the Internet, and thereby many companies, expecially SME, need to enable their businesses to use this mean in a secure, reliable and performing way.
Different technologies have been used so far for such a purpose, although two seem to emerge as the most appropriate to offer more advanced services with reduced costs: Web services along with the SOA paradigm and the Grid. The combination of those two paradigms will leverage the emerging concept of service oriented market. Business relationships will be regulated by business contracts which will contain the level of the services in terms of quality, reliability, time constraints, responsibility, penalties and methods of payment. The aim of the SSicilia project, a 2year collaboration between Oracle and the COMETA consortium, is to setup a business infrastructure Gridbased able to make the aforementioned scenario real. The infrastructure consists of first the SLA engine which aims to provide the mechanisms to handle business contracts (SLAs) on which B2B and B2C relationships are based. This module acts from one side as the interface with customers, providing access to the whole infrastructure. On the other side, it interfaces with the lower Grid infrastructure, which deal with the low level resources. Second the QoS engine, that works at the Grid layer, providing the QoS functionalities that the Grid infrastructure does not provide natively. Decisions are taken by
considering computation (CPU and RAM), storage and network resources. It also provides a prediction service to the SLA engine, that gives an estimate on the particular service upon it’s been enquired. Third the Virtualization, which allows running applications with particular requirements, offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating system, customization and encapsulation of entire application environments, and support for legacy applications.^
Abstract:It is commonly recognised that nowadays a large part of business processes are carried out through the Internet, and thereby many companies, expecially SME, need to enable their businesses to use this mean in a secure, reliable and performing way.
Different technologies have been used so far for such a purpose, although two seem to emerge as the most appropriate to offer more advanced services with reduced costs: Web services along with the SOA paradigm and the Grid. The combination of those two paradigms will leverage the emerging concept of service oriented market. Business relationships will be regulated by business contracts which will contain the level of the services in terms of quality, reliability, time constraints, responsibility, penalties and methods of payment. The aim of the SSicilia project, a 2year collaboration between Oracle and the COMETA consortium, is to setup a business infrastructure Gridbased able to make the aforementioned scenario real. The infrastructure consists of first the SLA engine which aims to provide the mechanisms to handle business contracts (SLAs) on which B2B and B2C relationships are based. This module acts from one side as the interface with customers, providing access to the whole infrastructure. On the other side, it interfaces with the lower Grid infrastructure, which deal with the low level resources. Second the QoS engine, that works at the Grid layer, providing the QoS functionalities that the Grid infrastructure does not provide natively. Decisions are taken by
considering computation (CPU and RAM), storage and network resources. It also provides a prediction service to the SLA engine, that gives an estimate on the particular service upon it’s been enquired. Third the Virtualization, which allows running applications with particular requirements, offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating system, customization and encapsulation of entire application environments, and support for legacy applications.^
Created:2010-05-01
Last updated:2010-05-01
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