Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
Content archived on 2024-06-18

ENABLING CONTINUOUS QUALITY ASSURANCE AND OPTIMIZATION IN FUTURE ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICE BROKERS

Project description


Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering

As enterprises increasingly adopt the model of cloud computing, the enterprise IT environment is progressively transformed into a matrix of interwoven infrastructure, platform and application services which are delivered from diverse service providers. To help enterprises deal with the overwhelming complexity of consuming large numbers of cloud services from diverse providers, future enterprise cloud service delivery platforms will need to implement a wide array of sophisticated brokerage-enabling capabilities, which will give rise to services that go far beyond anything currently offered by today's cloud intermediaries.
The challenge, to which the Broker@Cloud project commits, is to research and to develop solutions with respect to some of the most valuable and technically demanding types of brokerage capabilities foreseen for future enterprise cloud service brokers. In particular, we envisage the development of a brokerage framework which will allow cloud intermediaries to equip their platforms with advanced methods and mechanisms for continuous quality assurance and optimization of software-based enterprise cloud services. Those software-based services can range from simple programmatically accessible web APIs, to complex software applications delivered as cloud services, i.e. on-demand Software-as-a-Service offerings.
The brokerage framework, for which most of the software components will be released as Open Source Software, will comprise the following core building blocks: (i) methods and tools for platform-neutral description of enterprise cloud services; (ii) methods and mechanisms for cloud service governance and quality control; (iii) methods and mechanisms for cloud service failure prevention and recovery; (iv) methods and mechanisms for continuous optimization of cloud services.
The Broker@Cloud consortium, lead by SINTEF (Norway), consists of seven partners from four EU countries: CAS Software AG (Germany), Institute Of Communication And Computer Systems (Greece); SAP AG (Germany); South-East European Research Centre (Greece); SingularLogic SA (Greece) and The University of Sheffield (UK).

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Programme(s)

Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

FP7-ICT-2011-8
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

CP - Collaborative project (generic)

Coordinator

STIFTELSEN SINTEF
EU contribution
€ 868 021,00
Address
STRINDVEIEN 4
7034 Trondheim
Norway

See on map

Region
Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag
Activity type
Research Organisations
Links
Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

No data

Participants (6)

My booklet 0 0