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Open Cloud Computing Interface in Data Management-Related Setups

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The Cloud community is a vivid group of people who drive the ideas of Cloud computing into different fields of Information Technology. This demands for standards to ensure interoperability and avoid vendor lock-in. Since such standards need to satisfy many requirements, use cases, and applications, they need to be extremely flexible and adaptive. The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) family of specifications aims to achieve this goal: originally developed for the deployment of infrastructure Clouds, it can also be used in different service and deployment models. This article will outline the OCCI specifications and demonstrate how they can be used in data management-related setups. Not only can OCCI be easily integrated but it can also be used to deploy data-centric applications (which are secured by SLAs), support data-awareness in scheduling, as well as directly interface with data management tools in a PaaS-based manner. To demonstrate this, three use cases are discussed in this article.

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  1. 1.

    Usually in the form of virtual machines.

  2. 2.

    http://www.ogf.org/.

  3. 3.

    http://www.sla-at-soi.eu/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.snia.org/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.dmtf.org.

  7. 7.

    http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/dcifed-wg.

  8. 8.

    http://www.drmaa.org.

  9. 9.

    http://aws.amazon.com/rds.

  10. 10.

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlazure.

  11. 11.

    http://www.longjump.com.

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    Mostly found in the context of traditional Grid Computing.

  13. 13.

    http://www.d-grid.de.

  14. 14.

    With the exception of widely accepted and distributed tools such as the Climate Data Operators [15].

  15. 15.

    http://couchdb.apache.org/.

  16. 16.

    http://pyssf.sf.net/.

  17. 17.

    http://www.openstack.org.

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The authors acknowledge the contributions of all members of the OCCI working group. This work is partially supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research under project grant #01IG09009, and is partially supported by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2001-2013) under grant agreement no.216556.

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  3. Institut für Roboterforschung, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Alexander Papaspyrou

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Edmonds, A., Metsch, T., Papaspyrou, A. (2011). Open Cloud Computing Interface in Data Management-Related Setups. In: Fiore, S., Aloisio, G. (eds) Grid and Cloud Database Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20045-8_2

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