A Design and Experiment of Automation Management System for Platform as a Service

Security [11] and quality [4] of cloud computing (CC) services represent significant factors that affect the adoption by consumers. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of CC service models [14]. Management of database systems, middleware and application runtime environments is automated in PaaS [2]. PaaS automation management issues and requirements were collected in three rounds from information technology experts using Delphi technique. In this paper, PaaS automation quality and security management system (MS) layered model is proposed and validated. The aim of the MS is enabling PaaS model for mission critical platforms. Validation of the MS was based on experiment in a private cloud for an organization undergoing a transformation toward PaaS computing.