CLOUD COMPUTING

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ITU-T CLOUD
COMPUTING
REFERENCE
ARCHITECTURE

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• This architecture is somewhat broader in scope than the NIST

architecture, and views it as a layered functional architecture.
• ITU-T (for Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International
Telecommunications Union) is the primary international body for fostering
cooperative standards for telecommunications equipment and systems. It
was formerly known as the CCITT. It is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The ITU-T document defines the three actors:

• Cloud service customer or user

• Cloud service provider
• Cloud service partner

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Cloud service customer or user: A party that is in a business relationship for the
purpose of using cloud services. The business relationship is with a cloud service
provider or a cloud service partner.

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• Cloud service provider: A party that makes cloud services avalable. The
Cloud service providerfocuses on activities necessary to provide a cloud
service and activities necessary to ensure its delivery to the cloud service
customer as well as cloud service maintenance. The Cloud service provider
includes an extensive set of activities (e.g., provide service, deploy and
monitor service, manage business plan, provide audit data and so forth) as
well as numerous sub-roles (e.g., business manager, service manager,
network provider, security and risk manager and the like).
• Cloud service partner: A party that is engaged in support of, or auxiliary to,
activities of either the cloud service provider or the cloud service
customer, or both. A cloud service partner’s activities vary depending on
the type of partner and their relationship with the cloud service provider
and the cloud service customer. Examples of cloud service partners
include cloud auditor and cloud service broker.

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ITU-T CLOUD COMPUTING REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE LAYERED
ARCHITECTURE

Figure: ITU-T Cloud Computing Reference Architecture Layered Architecture

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• Layered Architecture
– The user layer is the user interface through which a cloud service
customer interacts with a cloud service provider and with cloud
services, performs customer-related administrative activities, and
– monitors cloud services.
The access layer provides a common interface for both manual and
automated access to the capabilities available in the services layer.
These capabilities include both the capabilities of the services and also
– the administration and business capabilities.
The service layer contains the implementation of the services provided
by a cloud service provider (e.g., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). The service layer
contains and controls the software components that implement the
services (but not the underlying hypervisors, host operating systems,
– device drivers, etc.), and arranges to offer the cloud services to users
via the access layer.
The resource layer consists of physical resources available to the
provider and the appropriate abstraction and control mechanisms. For
example, hypervisor software can provide virtual network, virtual
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• The multilayer functions include a series of functional components that
interact with functional components of the four other layers to provide
supporting capabilities. It" includes five categories of functional
components:
• Integration: Responsible for connecting functional components in the
architecture to create a unified architecture. The integration functional
components provide message routing and message exchange mechanisms
within the cloud architecture and its functional components as well as
with external functional components.
• Security systems: Responsible for applying security- related controls to
mitigate the security threats in cloud computing environments. The
security systems’ functional components encompass all the security
facilities required to support cloud services.
• Operational support system (OSS): Encompasses the set of operational-
related management capabilities that are required in order to manage and
control the cloud services offered to customers. OSS is also involved in
system monitoring, including the use of alarms and events.

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• Business support system (BSS): Encompasses the set of business-related
management capabilities dealing with customers and supporting
processes, such as billing and accounts.
• Development function: Supports the cloud computing activities of the
cloud service developer. This includes support of the development and/or
composition of service implementations, build management and test
management.

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ITU-T Cloud Computing Functional Reference
Architecture

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The resources and network layer. This layer consists of three sub layers as defined in
the list that follows:
Resource orchestration Pooling and virtualization Physical resources

• Resource orchestration: The management, monitoring, and scheduling of

computing, storage, and network resources into consumable services by the upper
layers and users. It controls the creation, modification, customization, and release
of virtualized resources.
• Pooling and virtualization: The virtualization function turns physical resources into
virtual machines, virtual storage, and virtual networks. These virtual resources are
in turn managed and controlled by the resource orchestration, based on user
demand. Software and platform assets in the pooling and virtualization layer are
the runtime environment, applications, and other software assets used to
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orchestrate and implement cloud services.
Physical resources: The computing, storage, and network resources that are
fundamental to providing cloud services. These resources may include those that
reside inside cloud data canters (e.g., computing servers, storage servers, and intra
cloud networks) and those that reside outside data canters, typically networking
resources, such as inter cloud networks and core transport networks. 10
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