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It has always been the corporate software competitor's Red Hat and Oracle, working with many other software vendors, as well as online service providers, in the hope of developing PAAs usage standards to ease the customer's operational difficulties.

"Application enablement and revocation is necessary to standardize so that customers can easily manage their applications on different platforms." "said Jeff Mischkinsky, senior executive of Oracle company Fusion intermediary software. Jeff Mischkinsky was involved in the development of the use criteria.

The supplier team involved in the development includes Rackspace,huawei,software Ag,cloudbees and Cloudsoft company. The team has proposed a PAAs standard based on improved structured Information Standards Management (OASIS), which has been the foundation of many widely used Web services in the last decade.

The program development team knows that standardizing the PAAs control directives is only the first step. Although in recent years, the use of PAAs services has grown significantly due to Amazon's resilient Cloud computing (EC2) and Microsoft-enabled platforms such as Azure, and each vendor provides its own console to the user, making it difficult to integrate workloads between servers. Perhaps the biggest contributor to PAAs standardization is the Eucalyptus platform. The Eucalyptus platform open source platform uses the Amazon Company application Interface (API) call feature.

The OASIS standard proposed by the team, called Platform Cloud Application Management (CAMP), is an API that enables PAAs workload management with a range of directives. At the same time, camp also has workload packaging capabilities. JSON (a lightweight Data interchange format based on JavaScript language) sequences capture the emitted instructions, and JSON communicates through rest (the image state transmission), and Rest is a network information exchange protocol that is widely used. "We define the life cycle of the application." "Mischkinsky said. In the future, standards may add functionality requirements, such as workload transfer.

Using the standard development team, the PAAs vendors ' own cloud computing services can recognize these directives. If different PAAs services are able to use the same set of instructions, the customer's operations can be greatly simplified----and the workload of Third-party management software vendors is simplified by establishing tools to manage the multi-vendor cloud workload. At the same time, the team said that the unification of instructions also made it possible for customers to save a lot of effort without moving the workload between suppliers.

For PAAs vendors, "The operation of application management monitoring is different, this is not product differentiation," Mischkinsky says, "and the difference lies in the more advanced functionality that the platform provides, the more advanced services." The