Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches [chapter]

Attila Kertesz
2014 Computer Communications and Networks  
Cloud Computing offers on-demand access to computational, infrastructure and data resources operated from a remote source. This novel technology has opened new ways of flexible resource provisions for businesses to manage IT applications and data responding to new demands from customers. In this chapter we give a general insight to the formation and interoperability issues of Cloud Federations that envisage a distributed, heterogeneous environment consisting of various cloud infrastructures by
more » ... ggregating different IaaS provider capabilities coming from both the commercial and academic area. These multi-cloud infrastructures are also used to avoid provider lock-in issues for users that frequently utilize different clouds. We characterize and classify recent solutions that arose from both research projects and individual research groups, and show how they attempt to hide the diversity of multiple clouds and form a unified federation on top of them. Since they still need to cope with several open issues concerning interoperability, we provide guidelines to address related topics such as service monitoring, data protection and privacy, data management and energy efficiency.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10530-7_12 fatcat:tz65pi4p7rgg5okuonfxbbli5e