Self−Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
Imad M. Abbadi · 2011
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds’ internal employees and contractors (e.g. enterprise architects, system and security administrators). Such manual management process that require human intervention is not adequate considering the cloud promising future as an Internet scale critical infrastructure. This paper is concerned about exploring and analyzing automated self-managed services for cloud’s virtual resources. We propose a conceptual model of self-managed services interdependencies and identify static and dynamic factors affecting their automated actions in the context of cloud computing. Next, we identify the challenges involved in providing secure and reliable self-managed services. We have just started the work in this area as part of EU funded Trusted cloud (TCloud) project.