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Partitioning applications for hybrid and federated clouds

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Bradley Simmons,

Marin LitoiuAuthors Info & Claims

CASCON '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research

Pages 27 - 41

Published: 05 November 2012 Publication History

Abstract

On-demand access to computing resources as-a-service has the potential to allow enterprises to temporarily scale out of their private data center into the infrastructure of a public cloud provider during times of peak demand. However, concerns about privacy and security may limit the adoption of this technique. We describe an approach to partitioning a software application (particularly a client-facing web application) into components that can be run in the public cloud and components that should remain in the private data center. Static code analysis is used to automatically establish a partitioning based on low-effort input from the developer. Public and private versions of the application are created and deployed; at runtime, user navigation proceeds seamlessly with requests routed to the public or private data center as appropriate. We present implementations for both Java and PHP web applications, tested on sample applications.

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CASCON '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research

November 2012

291 pages

Conference Chair:
Joanna Ng
CAS Research, IBM Canada Software Lab
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Editors:
Hans-Arno Jacobsen
University of Toronto
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Ying (Jenny) Zou
Queen's University
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Judy Chen
CAS Research, IBM Canada Software Lab
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Program Chairs:
Hans-Arno Jacobsen
University of Toronto
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Ying (Jenny) Zou
Queen's University

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Abdallah MGriwodz CChen KSimon GWang PHsu C(2018)Delay-Sensitive Video Computing in the CloudACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/321280414:3s(1-29)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212804
Liu JAhmed EShiraz MGani ABuyya RQureshi A(2018)Application partitioning algorithms in mobile cloud computingJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2014.09.00948:C(99-117)Online publication date: 28-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2014.09.009
Litoiu MWigglesworth JMateescu RMindel MMüller HOnut V(2016)The 8th CASCON Workshop on Cloud ComputingProceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering10.5555/3049877.3049916(300-303)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3049877.3049916
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