Towards Application Portability in Platform as a Service
Faculty/Professorship: | Distributed Systems |
Author(s): | Kolb, Stefan; Wirtz, Guido ![]() |
Title of the compilation: | Proceedings : IEEE Eighth International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering ; SOSE 2014 |
Corporate Body: | 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), 2014, Oxford, United Kingdom |
Publisher Information: | IEEE |
Year of publication: | 2014 |
Pages: | 218-229 |
Language(s): | English |
DOI: | 10.1109/SOSE.2014.26 |
URL: | https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakult... |
Abstract: | Cloud Computing has been one of the most vibrant topics in the last years. Especially Platform as a Service (PaaS) is said to be a game changer for future application development. Taking away most of the configuration work, it pledges to foster rapid application development which seems even more important in a world of complex scalable distributed systems. Whereas Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is in the process of consolidation and standardization, the PaaS market is largely fragmented offering varying ecosystem capabilities. In this situation, application portability is a major concern for companies utilizing PaaS to avoid vendor lock-in and to retain the ability for future strategical decisions. To categorize portability problems of PaaS, we define a model of current PaaS offerings and identify different portability perspectives. Starting from the model, we derive a standardized profile with a common set of capabilities that can be found among PaaS providers and matched with one another to check application portability based on ecosystem capabilities. We validate our findings with a comprehensive data set of 68 PaaS offerings together with a web-based application for portability matching. We also identify further portability problems by porting the application to different PaaS vendors, validating ecosystem portability and giving hints for future research directions. |
Keywords: | Cloud Computing, Platform as a Service, Portability, PaaS, Comparison |
Type: | Conferenceobject |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/3177 |
Year of publication: | 23. June 2014 |

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