Thought you would be interested in the following link. Topic: SLA-Enabled Infrastructure Management Abstract This chapter documents a successful reference implementation of an SLA- enabled compute infrastructure. Limitations of current Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings are discussed, and an SLA-enabled implementation is introduced. Infrastructure SLA and services managers have been developed, as have extensions to Apache Tashi [11] and a low- level monitoring system. Efforts to develop a generic open interface to heterogenous infrastructure have helped to create the recently published Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) [2]. Link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n300405h87845124/ Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================