MORPHEMIC - Optimization of the Deployment and Life-cycle Management of Data-intensive Applications in the Cloud Computing Continuum

Abstract

In their Cloud strategy companies are choosing more and more multi-cloud computing giving them the opportunity to distribute its assets, redundancies, software, applications, and anything it deems worthy not only on one Cloud-hosting environment, but rather across several. The model of using multiple Cloud services to host the business's functions and features has a list of advantages that can provide security, flexibility, cost-effectiveness and more to increase business's efficiency and ensure it stays up and running 24 hours a day. The paper presents the MORPHEMIC H2020 project and its unique way of adapting and optimising Cloud computing applications. The Morphemic project covers several features from modelling cross-cloud applications, continuous and autonomous optimization and deployment and providing access to several cloud capabilities for data intensive applications. The outcome of the project will be implemented in the form of an open-source platform covering all the data intensive applications deployment phases starting from modelling, through profiling, optimization, runtime reconfiguration and monitoring.