SOA and Cloud Service Provisioning Framework

Abstract

Internet technology and advances in IT in general has made another paradigm of distributed computing sort after strategy for IT organisations. From client-server computing, Grid computing and now cloud computing, distributed computing architecture made it possible for multiple uses of IT infrastructure and application with managed allocation policies to utilise shared resources and applications. Service oriented computing (SOC) implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) underlines computing as a service by leveraging internet technology such as web service. Cloud computing is promoted as the type of distributing computing that will provide anything from basic computing need to high end delivery of IT services. Hence in this paper we consider two areas of distributed computing architecture, cloud and SOA by discussing the principles and how this fits into our framework to optimised provisioning of SOA over Cloud.