High-Level Abstraction Layers for Development and Deployment of Cloud Services

Abstract

Cloud computing has emerged in recent years, while the illusion of the unlimited resources and feature-rich, is still considerably complex to use. Not only the migration between clouds is difficult - but also the development and deployment of a new, complex service from the beginning could be quite a challenge using today's cloud computing. In the paper, new high-level abstraction layers for cloud computing is presented. The abstraction layers will allow users to manage cloud resources form various clouds and simplify the process of developing and deploying services into those clouds. This approach will also solve absolutely the interoperability issue, thus improving the flexibility of cloud computing. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.