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Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches

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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 provide a general insight to the formation and interoperability issues of Cloud Federations that envisage a distributed, heterogeneous environment consisting of various cloud infrastructures by aggregating different Infrastructure-as-a-Service (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. As they still need to cope with several open issues concerning interoperability; we also provide guidelines to address related topics such as service monitoring, data protection and privacy, data management and energy efficiency.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the CloudSME FP7 project under grant agreement 608886, and it was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001 “National Excellence Program.”

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    Attila Kertesz

  2. Software Engineering Department, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Kertesz, A. (2014). Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10530-7_12

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