Semantic Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has emerged as a model in support of “everything as a service” – cloud technologies enable an on-demand, elastic, and scalable provisioning of resources. Complementarily, semantic technologies provide the means for making sense of heterogeneous data at large scale.
At fluidOps, we do research and development at the interface of both technologies:

• We develop solutions for the management of linked data and semantic applications in the cloud, allowing the end user to develop novel linked data applications in a self-service style.
• We develop technologies that improve the management and maintenance of clouds by using semantic technologies across the whole IT stack.

The Information Workbench – A Platform for Linked Data Applications in the Cloud

With existing datasets growing and new data being added constantly, the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud becomes increasingly interesting for the Enterprise, allowing companies to augment and complement internal knowledge with external information. The development of domain-specific applications that benefit from LOD repositories, though, is often a time-consuming and costly task.

With the Information Workbench, we provide a self-service platform for the fast development of domain-specific linked data applications. Designed with the goal to leverage linked data deployment in the enterprise, the Information Workbench implements concepts and features for integrating internal and external information, general paradigms for the investigation and augmentation of the integrated knowledge, as well as collaborative interaction.

The process of building linked data applications in a self-service manner is supported and driven by the following features of the Information Workbench:

1. the concept of data providers, which form the basis for information integration and enable the fast pay-as-you-go integration of legacy data sources from virtually every accessible data source,
2. a flexible, widget-based user interface, which is highly configurable and easily extendable,
3. the deployment of the Information Workbench as an appliance on Cloud Infrastructure.

Learn more about the Information Workbench.

Semantic Technologies for Enterprise Cloud Management

Enterprise clouds apply the paradigm of cloud computing to enterprise IT infrastructures, with the goal of providing easy, flexible, and scalable access to both computing resources and IT services. With the fluidOps eCloudManager, we deliver pre-packaged end-to-end integration and enterprise cloud management across the IT stack. Multiple VMware infrastructures, Hyper-V landscapes, EC2 instances, and EMC as well as NetApp storage systems can be managed and controlled from eCloudManager’s simple user interface – it’s really “one console to rule them all”!

Further Links

• fluidOps Publications
• fluidOps Research Projects