ARTIST: The realization... the vision is now a reality
ARTIST assets can be used by any company that owns obsolete applications and old-fashion business models and wants to transform them to innovative applications, thus exploiting the opportunities provided by cutting-edge technologies of nowadays, naming cloud computing and model-driven engineering. ARTIST provides an open source end-to-end solution that best fits in modernizing several similar applications towards the cloud, as it also emphasizes on how to reuse the work from one project to the next offering in this way greater cost reductions and shorter development cycles. Validated by four real-life industrial cases, ARTIST project has demonstrated that its open-source package can: -support companies (software providers) in the hard and costly challenge of modernizing their applications, -Foster the uptake of cloud technologies and business models (especially by SMEs), -reduce the migration costs in relation to manual migration, -allow an easier evolution of software with optimal performance and cost. The vision which became a reality Three years ago, ARTIST envisioned the creation of a tool-supported methodology to cloudify software applications. Now, three years later we can say that we have realized our vision. ARTIST has released an open source tool suite that guides software application vendors selling their applications following the license-based business model and with traditional n-tier architectures, in the process to make their applications cloud - compliant, multi-tenant, scalable, elastic and secure. The competitive advantage of the ARTIST tool suite strives in: -an end-to-end process, from when the migration is just a thought up to the deployment of the cloudified application -a customized methodology for each application and business model, not “one size fits all” -user-driven toolset -model-driven approach, allowing application owners understand the logic of their own applications before the migration takes place -application of novel cloudification and optimization patterns, that change the architecture of the application to make it compliant with current cloud reference architecture standards -benchmarking of cloud providers -auditing of actual performance of cloud providers measured against their SLAs. The end... The start - ARTIST Club A tremendous amount of work has been produced in the ARTIST project, and the tools and software are starting to be used in the offerings of the organisations involved. There is a common need to ensure that the results remain available and up-to-date. The partners are committed to this, and the most economic and structured way to do this is to continue working on the common open-source tools - this is, in its very essence, the raison d’etre of open source. To structure both this forum of business partnerships and the stewarding of the open source results, not to mention the pooling of marketing and dissemination efforts, the consortium has formed an organisation termed the ARTIST Club. The last minute achievement! We are proud to announce that ARTIST project has been unanimously accepted in the OW2 open-source software community at the incubation level by the OW2 Technology Council.
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