A Holistic View of Information Management in Cloud Environments

The emergence of Cloud technologies ultimately affected the service computing ecosystem introducing new roles and relationships as well as new architectural and business models. Along with the increase of the capabilities and potentials of the service providers came the increase of the information being available and the need to manage it in an efficient way. To this end, in this paper we present a management service architecture as well as the information model that the solution is based on. The model has been designed to serve a storage service provided by a Cloud infrastructure but the approach is implemented in a flexible and modular fashion in order to support different Cloud situations.