Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds: Architecture, Services and Frameworks

Abstract

The fundamental areas of Information Technology are being revolutionised by cloud computing—offering versatility of services in the form of infrastructure (IaaS), software (SaaS) and platforms (PaaS). This chapter focuses on existing cloud computing technology and architectural frameworks for three different cloud environments, namely, social clouds, dynamic clouds and custom-based clouds. It also provides a brief discussion about the need for cloud development frameworks along with the services rendered by different clouds. Since the endowment of services to different enterprises being served by the same cloud depends upon the type of consumer requirements, this chapter suggests various software engineering techniques and principles to design different types of cloud frameworks. In this context, the process model of Extreme Programming is proposed to build custom-based frameworks for dynamically changing cloud-based requirements of clients. Software engineering process models are also identified to cater clouds with streaming data, keeping in view the variable business needs and scientific advancements. Through this, a new integrated process model is also brought under discussion to develop and deploy dynamic clouds.