On-demand software licence provisioning in grid and cloud computing. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Raekow, Yona; Simmendinger, Christian; Jenz, Domenic; Grabowski, Piotr
• Is Part Of: International journal of grid and utility computing. Volume 4:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 10
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: software licence management -- grid computing -- cloud computing -- PIN/TAN -- portal -- accounting -- billing; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 004.605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-847X

Abstract

The lack of licence management schemes in distributed environments is becoming a major obstacle for the commercial adoption of grid or cloud infrastructures. In this paper, we present a complete licence management architecture that enables a pay-per-use licence management, which can be deployed together with an on-demand computing scenario. Our architecture enables authenticated access to a remote licence server. The licence management architecture can be deployed in any distributed environment. It supports existing client/serverbased software licence management tools (e.g. FlexNet Publisher). This allows an easy transition from current software licence business models, which support only a local licence management towards business models that support licence management in distributed environments.