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Consuming Resources and Services from Multiple Clouds

From Terminology to Cloudware Support

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The consumption of resources and services from multiple Clouds for reasons like high availability, cost reductions or special features is a natural evolution from in-silo Clouds. Several middleware are already available for multiple Clouds. However, due to the complexity of the technical solutions, their approaches are quite different and a classification is needed to guide the potential users. This paper looks to the reports on multiple Cloud topics and proposes a specific taxonomy. It identifies the ready-to-use software and services and classifies them according the taxonomy. It also underlines the driving needs and requirements from consumers’ and providers’ point of views. A particular Cloudware is provided as an example for the degree of requirements fulfillment.

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This work was partially supported by the grant of Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS UEFISCDI, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0260 (AMICAS). It refers as case study to the platform developed in the frame of the grant of European Commission FP7-ICT-2009-5-256910 (mOSAIC), and provides a preliminary study on multiple Clouds for FP7-ICT 2011-8-318484 (MODAClouds).

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Petcu, D. Consuming Resources and Services from Multiple Clouds. J Grid Computing 12, 321–345 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-013-9290-3

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