Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’

SLA-enabled Infrastructure Scheduling

Monday, April 4th, 2011

SLA@SOI has developed a scheduler to help better deliver an SLA-enabled infrastructure. It allocates requested virtual machines to the most appropriate physical machines taking SLA specifications and data center policies into account. Read on to find out more…

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SLA@SOI at OGF 30

Monday, November 8th, 2010

SLA@SOI participated at the recent OGF30 in Brussels, where OCCI and DCI-Fed were of particular interest

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Using Cloud Standards for Interoperability of Cloud Frameworks

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR have been actively collaborating together with the aim of investigating and pursuing the integration of their respective technologies as part of the NEXOF Reference Architecture initiative. One of the outputs of this work has been a technical report that details how cloud standards, such as OCCI, can be used to support the [...]

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So What’s in OVF?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

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).

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Messaging and Infrastructure Management

Friday, February 6th, 2009

SLA@SOI is dedicated towards building an SLA-aware service oriented infrastructure. A key component of this will be the layer managing the infrastructure, and we are envisioning that this must be able to handle internet-scale deployments. Management of an environment with hundreds of thousands of nodes places significant demands on communication channels, and SLA@SOI is currently investigating how protocols like XMPP might help address these needs.

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