Service Oriented Infrastructures and Cloud Service Platforms for the Enterprise - A selection of common capabilities validated in real-life business trials by the BEinGRID consortium

Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated by the BEinGRID consortium in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors.

List of contents

Approach Towards Technical Innovations for Service Oriented Infrastructures and Clouds.- Management of Virtual Organizations.- Aspects of General Security & Trust.- Management for Service Level Agreements.- License Management.- Data Management.- Portals for Service Oriented Infrastructures.- Bringing it all Together.

Summary

Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated by the BEinGRID consortium in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors.

Product details

• Assisted by: Theo Dimitrakos (Editor), Jose Martrat (Editor), Josep Martrat (Editor), Stefan Wesner (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783642447648
• ISBN: 978-3-642-44764-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 355 g
• Illustrations: XV, 210 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; C, computer science, IT in Business, Information Technology, Computer Communication Networks, Mathematics of Computing, Information Systems and Communication Service, Computers, Business mathematics & systems, Mathematical theory of computation, Computer science—Mathematics, Maths for computer scientists, Computer Engineering and Networks, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Computer organization, Business—Data processing, Business applications, Computer networking & communications