Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Characteristics:
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On-demand self-service. A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider.
Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines. |
Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).
Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.
Measured Service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service. |
Service Models:
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email). The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user-specific application configuration settings.
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networking components.
maat International. The Cloud Computing Key Player.
maat International offers to the market an end to end Cloud Computing Value Proposal. maat International is present in all the Cloud Computing Layers and Functions, deploying fist class services and solutions under the Cloud Model.Our first class Platform, Kactoo, is and and end-to-end solution, which allows full exploitation of any resources in the cloud
Kactoo is a Cloud-optimized platform, delivered exclusively as a service. Is a aPaaS, classified as "cloud-native." The application's code runs on the PaaS provider's infrastructure. A developer using cloud-native PaaS does not create, configure, or manage virtual machines or storage, nor do they select and provision frameworks and runtime services — these services are curated by the provider and supplied with the platform. Cloud-native PaaS offers abstractions for workload granularity that lighten the developer's burden for many scalability and operational concerns.
maat International's Cloud Computing - Functionalities.
Kactoo platform provides all services to manage the pool of infrastructure resources in an elastic and also provide all services necessary to publish applications in SaaS.
This integrated with different reporting tools, providing a genuine pool of services, offering all the facilities in a single environment.
Domain specificity: The platform is a generalist Platform which is able to deploy different flavors, in specific domains (Tourism, Energy, Banking, eHealth, eBusiness for SMEs, Media & Transport), so Kactoo has the both orientations: as a generalist domain, and a specific domain, oriented to these sectors.
Compute granularity: The controllable unit of compute service is completely transparent.
Value proposition: The platform offer purely standard, open-source components
Architecture control: The consumer has a high control over programming languages, frameworks, runtime infrastructure, and deployment topologies.
Portability: Kactoo offers specific tools in order to allow the evolution of the SaaS Apps to other Platforms.
Openness: All the components of the technology are based on standards and open source.
Kactoo PaaS environment supplies development frameworks and runtime containers that support user interface, presentation coordination, service and integration, data access, and communications capabilities. Our PaaS environment must also supply or interoperate with supporting infrastructure capabilities such as authentication, authorization, session management, transaction integrity, reliability, availability, and scalability. Kactoo PaaS environment also supports a variety of cloud characteristics, such as rapid provisioning, multi-tenancy, elastic scalability, and resource usage tracking and billing.
maat International Cloud Brokerage – Operational Support.
Kactoo is a Cloud-optimized platform, delivered exclusively as a service. Is a aPaaS, classified as "cloud-native." The application's code runs on the PaaS provider's infrastructure. A developer using cloud-native PaaS does not create, configure, or manage virtual machines or storage, nor do they select and provision frameworks and runtime services — these services are curated by the provider and supplied with the platform. Cloud-native PaaS offers abstractions for workload granularity that lighten the developer's burden for many scalability and operational concerns.
maat International Cloud Infrastructure – Business Support.
App2Cloud Module. In addition to a powerful development environment, Kactoo can inherit preexisting to the cloud. Thus, vertical / applications can be developed and instantiated in the cloud, consuming resources of the pool under Cloud Computing philosophy. This process is done transparently, without modifying the application. Currently this process takes place for PHP applications, a high percentage of existing Open Source solutions are PHP, and requires no modification to the application, so there is a wide range of verticals that can run natively on Kactoo under philosophy Cloud. In the immediate Kactoo’s roadmap is extending this functionality to Java applications, functionality which will be developed in this project.
Multi IaaS. The concept of interoperability in Kactoo spans all layers, even in the bottom layer IaaS. Kactoo is not dependent on any IaaS and resolves the ability to create a cloud with the capability to share of different IaaS resources transparently. This technology allows flexibility to meet the needs of any business model.
Cloud Computing Deployment Models:
| Public cloud. The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services. Community cloud. The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise. |
Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise. Hybrid cloud. The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds). |
maat International Cloud eCosystem – Top-level View.