Multi-Cloud Computing Platform Support With Model-Driven Application Runtime Framework

Cloud computing benefits software development by providing elastic resource pool and lower total IT investment; however there are still open issues such as security that we outsource data storage to third party without knowledge of where the data is actually stored, and software developed for particular cloud platform are technological lock-in which increase the cost of migration to other platform. This paper aims to solve these open issues by the proposed framework that serves as a runtime environment for development and execution of an enterprise application based on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). The framework aims to shield complexity in the software development on multi-cloud platforms by automates the process from design to deployment; and yet include mechanism to support the developer to adapt the application to deploy on different target cloud platforms. The framework is illustrated by given sample development of customer relationship management and billing software system.