The financial sector depends heavily on process and data intensive computations to deliver competitive advantage. Financial applications are particularly suited to grid-based experimentation and research. A Financial Live Trading System is used an exemplar in this article. The emerging growth of worldwide trading and the reliance on automated processing has increased the complexity and volatility [...]
Originally, (Web) services were deployed and used with almost no actual control by the different parties. The simplistic assumption that their behavior was correct and everyone had to be happy with the functionality provided was unrealistic. The actual exploitation of services, imposed us to start conceiving different methods and tools to manage the complete life-cycle of deployed and running services with special emphasis on the actual run-time behavior.
SLA@SOI will co-sponsor the 3rd Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLAM-SOC).
This event will take place from the 24th to the 26th of November 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden and is to be held in conjunction with The 7th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2009).
This workshop aims to tackle the research [...]
An essential part of an SLA-aware infrastructure is a scalable and self-sufficient monitoring system capable of monitoring large distributed systems, in real-time. The monitoring system must support two mutually exclusive perspectives arising from the Service Level Agreement, namely the customer’s perspective and the infrastructure/service provider’s perspective. The former is interested in the SLA alone, while [...]
SLA@SOI is to present their adhoc demonstrator at the Internet of Services 2009 in Brussels on Wednesday 10th June 2009.
The adhoc demonstrator is the first public demonstrator of the SLA@SOI framework integrated with a reference service-oriented application supporting the sales process in a retail chain.
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The Open Virtualisation Format (OVF) is a schema for describing a virtual machine or a collection of virtual machines. The initiative is the results of efforts by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) who, amongst other standards, are responsible for the Common Information Model (CIM).
INGRID 2009 took place from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2009 in in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, and SLA@SOI was invited to participate in the session on “Enabling Quality of Service through Service Level Agreements“.
SLA@SOI, represented by Dortmund University of Technology, gave two presentations during this session. Philipp Wieder covered “Essential Concepts of Electronic [...]
Our project is about managing Service Level Agreements, so in this post it is a good opportunity to discuss them in general and see some aspects of their management.
The Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School will take place from the 16th to the 19th June 2009 in Heraklion, Crete. The programme includes presentations by NESSI Strategic Projects SLA@SOI and SOA4ALL, as well as Network of Excellence S-Cube.
NEXOF will be one of the topics of the Summer School.
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From a series of discussion had on the CCIF, SLA@SOI was invited to partake in a “Birds of Feather” session at OGF25 that will lead to the foundation of the OGF’s working group for standardised IaaS APIs.
