Modeling for the cloud

摘要

Cloud computing is poised to become a major driving force behind European and American businesses. Long-standing projects like the SETI@Home project and facilities such as SourceForge leverage third party distributed storage and computational resources to deliver services. Companies are seeking to commercialize this approach to service delivery through the use of cloud computing technologies. Cloud computing commerce can take several forms: customers can rent an infrastructure, a platform, or predefined services. While predefined cloud-based services for email, blogs, wikis, and media storage are well known, more complex business oriented applications like customer relationship management are starting to appear. While companies such as Amazon, Google, and Force.com are providing services for and from the cloud there are aspects of cloud computing that can benefit from research in the model-driven software development area.