In FY13, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with funding from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Building Technologies Office (BTO), designed, prototyped and tested a transactional network platform to support energy, operational and financial transactions between any networked entities (equipment, organizations, buildings, grid, etc.). Initially, in FY13, the concept demonstrated transactions between packaged rooftop air conditioning and heat pump units (RTUs) and the electric grid using applications or "agents" that reside on the platform, on the equipment, on a local building controller or in the Cloud. The transactional network project is a multi-lab effort with Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) also contributing to the effort. PNNL coordinated the project and also was responsible for the development of the transactional network (TN) platform and three different applications associated with RTUs. This document describes two applications or "agents" in detail, and also summarizes the platform. The TN platform details are described in another companion document.

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Backing up and restoring enterprise applications (EAs) are essential operations that are usually done manually by an administrator or semi-automatically by tools. Backing up an enterprise application (EA) consists of backing up all its components together with the environments and operating systems in a consistent way so that the application can be restored and function properly later. There are many challenges for backing up and restoring EAs. This paper proposes a framework for automating the process of backing up and restoring EAs deployed in a cloud environment to ensure the continuous running of these enterprise applications and prevent the loss of data in case failure of applications.

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