Aneka—Integration of Private and Public Clouds

Abstract

A growing interest in moving software applications, services, and even infrastructure resources from in-house premises to external providers has been witnessed recently. A survey conducted by F5 Networks between June and July 2009 1 showed that such a trend has now reached a critical mass; and an increasing number of IT managers have already adopted, or are considering adopting, this approach to implement IT operations. This model of making IT resources available, known as Cloud Computing [1], opens new opportunities to small, medium-sized, and large companies. It is not necessary anymore to bear considerable costs for maintaining the IT infrastructures or to plan for peak demand. Instead, infrastructure and applications can scale elastically according to the business needs at a reasonable price. The possibility of instantly reacting to the demand of customers without long-term planning is one of the most appealing features of cloud computing, and it has been a key factor in making this trend popular among technology and business practitioners.As a result of this growing interest, the major players in the IT industry such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Sun, and Yahoo have started offering cloudcomputing-based solutions that cover the entire IT computing stack, from hardware to applications and services. These offerings have become quickly

Dynamically scaling applications in the cloud

“…Different PaaS clouds can be based on different platforms, for example GAE and its open source counterpart AppEngine [32] provide containers for servlets (part of the J2EE specification) and Python scripts, while Azure and Aneka [33] offer an environment for .NET applications. Each platform type can define different lifecycles, services and APIs for the components it hosts.…”

“…Aneka [33] For high loads, and to avoid overprovisioning of resources, it would be useful to be able to federate clouds so components can be run in external/public clouds if needed. Aneka is able to deploy containers and run users applications in several IaaS providers.…”

The Role of Cloud Computing in the Development of Information Systems for SMEs

“…However, it translates into a layer that greatly facilitates the development of applications. Some examples of PaaS are Aneka (Vecchiola, 2009;Vecchiola, 2012) and the Google App Engine (Ciurana, 2009;Prodan, 2012).…”

Intention-oriented programming support for runtime adaptive autonomic cloud-based applications

“…As such, self-managed services will enable cloud-of-clouds to possess exceptional capabilities to automatically manage and control the applications running on the cloud [6]. Aneka [19] is a cloud integration platform, which was developed to harness computing resources on demand by integrating several heterogeneous clouds, constructing what is known as interCloud [20]. It allows users to express their needs by using only the pre-available APIs in the Aneka Software Development Kit (SDK) or uploading existing applications to the cloud [19]; there is no other way of adding new components into the application.…”

“…Aneka [19] is a cloud integration platform, which was developed to harness computing resources on demand by integrating several heterogeneous clouds, constructing what is known as interCloud [20]. It allows users to express their needs by using only the pre-available APIs in the Aneka Software Development Kit (SDK) or uploading existing applications to the cloud [19]; there is no other way of adding new components into the application. CometCloud has also been proposed as an autonomic computing engine for cloud environments [21], which is based on a decentralised XML based coordination form, to support a highly dynamic Cloud Computing infrastructure.…”