THE BIS-GRID ENGINE: AN ORCHESTRATION AS A SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE
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https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.8.3.690Keywords:
Cloud, Grid, Orchestration, Service Oriented Architecture, Security, Orchestration as a Service, Platform as a Service.Abstract
The need for information system integration is typical for many companies including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But especially for SMEs, the costs to run a full-fledged integration platform in-house are beyond the available IT budget. This article describes the concept of Orchestration as a Service (OaaS), a specialization of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) paradigm in the Cloud (computing) world. The goal of this paradigm is to provide a workflow-based integration platform as a (Cloud) service focusing on so-called service orchestrations. We present the BIS-Grid Engine as a core middleware for an OaaS infrastructure including a discussion about how our solution addresses security requirements that are a key issue in Cloud technologies.References
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