Solidifying the foundations of the cloud for the next generation Software Engineering

Infrastructure clouds are expected to play an important role in the next generation Software Engineering but currently there are some drawbacks. These clouds are too infrastructure oriented and they lack advanced service oriented capabilities such as service elasticity, quality of service or admission control to perform a holistic management of a whole application. The deployment of complex multi-tier applications on top of IaaS infrastructures requires to provide the IaaS platforms with an extra service layer that provides advanced service management functionality.