Platforms for Building and Deploying Applications for Cloud Computing

TL;DR

This paper introduces cloud computing platforms, focusing on Aneka as a versatile Cloud Application Platform that simplifies development and deployment of cloud-ready applications across various cloud environments.

Contribution

It presents Aneka as a flexible, modular platform that enables easy development and extension of cloud applications, highlighting its capabilities in private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Findings

Aneka supports rapid development of cloud applications.

Aneka's modular architecture allows easy integration of new services.

Aneka facilitates deployment across different cloud models.

Abstract

Cloud computing is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for delivering IT services as utlity-oriented services on subscription-basis. The rapid development of applications and their deployment in Cloud computing environments in efficient manner is a complex task. In this article, we give a brief introduction to Cloud computing technology and Platform as a Service, we examine the offerings in this category, and provide the basis for helping readers to understand basic application platform opportunities in Cloud by technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Sales Force, Google App, and Aneka for Cloud computing. We demonstrate that Manjrasoft Aneka is a Cloud Application Platform (CAP) leveraging these concepts and allowing an easy development of Cloud ready applications on a Private/Public/Hybrid Cloud. Aneka CAP offers facilities for quickly developing Cloud applications and a modular platform where additional services can be easily integrated to extend the system capabilities, thus being at pace with the rapidly evolution of Cloud computing.