The Open Group’s Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework

The Open Group has published a new industry standard, Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework, that outlines the “concepts and architectural building blocks necessary for infrastructures to support SOA and cloud initiatives”. In the standard metering is given much more prominence than any other proposed standard to date starting with the key characteristics of cloud computing:

http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/socci/cc_char.htm
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 managed, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.

In the chapter, Enabling Applicable Architectural Layers, metering is seen as an architecture building block which very much aligns to our view of metering in the context of PaaS though we take a much more ambitious view of metering in it being the primary source, cortext, of signals for controllers and sensors present within the other architecture building blocks.

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