Modern cloud computing environments support a relatively high degree of automation in
service provisioning, which allows cloud service customers (CSCs) to dynamically acquire …

Cloud services and applications prove indispensable amid today's modern utility-based
computing. The cloud has displayed a disruptive and growing impact on everyday …

The automation of application provisioning is one of the most important issues in Cloud
Computing. The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) …

DevOps is an emerging paradigm to tightly integrate developers with operations personnel.
This is required to enable fast and frequent releases in the sense of continuously delivering …

In this paper we consider Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI), a new concept for integrated
control and management of converged heterogeneous resources. SDI enables …

Distributed Denial of Service attacks are a growing threat to organizations and, as defense
mechanisms are becoming more advanced, hackers are aiming at the application layer. For …

Currently an increasing number of customers require cloud services with guaranteed
security levels. At this aim, the adoption of multi-cloud strategies is spreading in a large …

Security by Design becomes a significant aspect for establishing the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
paradigm. In this paper, we present an approach to utilize virtual prototypes (VP) at system …

Users of cloud platforms often must expend significant manual efforts in the deployment and
orchestration of their services on cloud platforms due primarily to having to deal with the …

Although many provisioning tools are available for deployment and management of
composite cloud services to overcome the manual efforts that are tedious and error-prone …