Service Oriented Platform

Fujitsu is developing a service oriented platform (SOP) as an infrastructure for providing emerging Cloud services. As a combination of servers, storage systems, networks, and software, SOP is an optimal platform for Cloud-era services merging virtualization and operation technologies. SOP design objectives and the architecture for achieving them are discussed with a focus on server-centric virtualization for automatically developing application systems from the viewpoint of servers and an evolution-oriented architecture for extending and upgrading the service platform without interrupting services. Virtual system packaging, dynamic resource management, and operations management are also presented as key elemental technologies for SOP design.