TY - GEN
T1 - XOS
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems, BigSystem 2015
AU - Peterson, Larry
AU - Baker, Scott
AU - De Leenheer, Marc
AU - Bavier, Andy
AU - Bhatia, Sapan
AU - Nelson, Jude
AU - Wawrzoniak, Mike
AU - Hartman, John
PY - 2015/6/16
Y1 - 2015/6/16
N2 - This paper describes XOS, a cloud operating system designed to manage hardware and software resources across a multi-tiered cloud. XOS raises the level of abstraction in an IaaS cloud architecture by elevating scalable software services to first-class objects. This involves adopting three design principles: (1) Everything-as-a Service (XaaS) (services are building blocks, and combinations of those building blocks are also services); (2) Multi-tenancy (a tenant relationship links one service to another, and facilitates reasoning about safety, privacy and efficiency); and (3) Control/Data-plane separation (services are configured through a logically centralized service controller interface, but the controller is not on the data path between services). XOS applies these principles through the lens of an operating system-it defines a set of abstractions that support constructing multi-tenant services that can be folded back into XOS as available building blocks, while also extending the capabilities of conventional IaaS. The paper shows how these abstractions can be used to build a functional, evolvable, service-oriented cloud.
AB - This paper describes XOS, a cloud operating system designed to manage hardware and software resources across a multi-tiered cloud. XOS raises the level of abstraction in an IaaS cloud architecture by elevating scalable software services to first-class objects. This involves adopting three design principles: (1) Everything-as-a Service (XaaS) (services are building blocks, and combinations of those building blocks are also services); (2) Multi-tenancy (a tenant relationship links one service to another, and facilitates reasoning about safety, privacy and efficiency); and (3) Control/Data-plane separation (services are configured through a logically centralized service controller interface, but the controller is not on the data path between services). XOS applies these principles through the lens of an operating system-it defines a set of abstractions that support constructing multi-tenant services that can be folded back into XOS as available building blocks, while also extending the capabilities of conventional IaaS. The paper shows how these abstractions can be used to build a functional, evolvable, service-oriented cloud.
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U2 - 10.1145/2756594.2756598
DO - 10.1145/2756594.2756598
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979656167
T3 - BigSystem 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems, Part of HPDC 2015
SP - 23
EP - 30
BT - BigSystem 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems, Part of HPDC 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 16 June 2015
ER -