Authors
Yasuo Uchida, Seigo Matsuno, Masayoshi Hasama, Takao Ito, Makoto Sakamoto
Corresponding Author
Yasuo Uchida
Available Online 15 September 2014.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2014.1.2.12
Keywords
cloud, open source, small and medium sized enterprise, OpenStack
Abstract
Cloud computing services have not been yet deployed widely by the SMEs
in Japan. Due to its many advantages, special skills and support techniques
for the SMEs need to be developed in order to implement cloud computing
services. A research of the relevant literature reveals that virtually
no published academic research has focused on the rational relationship
between cloud computing services and the SME’s information infrastructure.
Accordingly, to bridge this gape in our understanding of cloud computing,
this paper proposes and designs a special system framework of cloud computing
for the SMEs. Moreover, we devise a prototype model and identify the possibility
of the system implementation. Services that deliver functionality equivalent
to Amazon EC2 which is representative cloud service but delivered through
other technologies are called EC2 clones. OpenStack is not an EC2 clone,
and is a typical open source project for providing Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) type cloud services. OpenStack is used in this research
to implement a basic cloud service model.
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).