%0 Conference Paper
%B Simpósio de Informática - INForum
%D 2009
%T CAPI: Cloud Computing API
%A Bruno Costa
%A Miguel Matos
%A António Luis Sousa
%C Lisbon, Portugal
%I Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
%P 499–502
%X <p>Cloud Computing is an emerging business model to provide access to IT resources in a pay per use fashion. Those resources range from low-level virtual machines, passing by application platforms and ending in ready to use software delivered through the Internet, creating a layered stack of differentiated services. Different cloud vendors tend to specialize in different levels, offering different services each with its own proprietary API. This clearly led to provider lock-in and hinders the portability of a given application between different providers. The goal of this paper is therefore to provide an abstraction of the different levels of services in order to reduce vendor lock-in and improve portability, two issues that we believe impair the adoption of the Cloud Computing model.</p>
%8 September
%@ 978-972-9348-18-1
%> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/mmatos/files/inforum-capi.pdf