Cloud architecture: a preliminary look

  • Authors:

  • Won Kim

  • Affiliations:

  • Kyungwon University, Seongnam, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Cloud computing has started taking root. Many vendors provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). SaaS and PaaS are provided on top of an IaaS infrastructure. Different vendors have implemented different architectures for their IaaS and PaaS clouds. Further, the architecture of the IaaS infrastructure is multi-dimensional, consisting of virtualization architecture, cloud service and management functional architecture, network architecture, and a scale-out architecture. There are few definitive articles that provide a reference architecture for the IaaS infrastructure. In this article, I will try to provide a framework and outline for such an architecture.