Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated by the BEinGRID consortium in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors.

Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated by the BEinGRID consortium in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors.

The emergence of Grid and Cloud computing enables in particular small and medium sized companies to exploit new market opportunities by virtualizing part of their IT infrastructure to external providers as well as on-demand established collaboration with partners providing complementary skills within such a Virtual Organisation. In this book a Dynamic Virtual Organisation Concept is presented combining existing work in in the field of economics around the Virtual Enterprise with a more IT technology oriented model from the Grid Computing domain. Starting from this model a set of abstracted use cases are analyzed and key requirements are developed. Based on them a general concept for the management of Dynamic Virtual Organisation and a concrete instantiation for the domain of Large Scale Data Centre Management is provided. The framework is partially based on results achieved by the author within industry driven large scale collaborative research projects such as Akogrimo, BREIN, GeneSyS, NextGrid and BEinGrid. These projects with partially more than 90 partners from academia and industry in Europe had been leading initiatives in this field.