Paper Info
Title
Cloud federations in contrail
Abstract
Cloud computing infrastructures support dynamical and flexible access to computational, network and storage resources. To date, several disjoint industrial and academic technologies provide infrastructure level access to Clouds. Especially for industrial platforms, the evolution of de-facto standards goes together with worries about user lock-in to a platform. The Contrail project [6] proposes a federated and integrated approach to Clouds. In this work we present and motivate the architecture of Contrail federations. Contrail's goal is to minimize the burden on the user and increase the efficiency in using Cloud platforms by performing both a vertical and a horizontal integration. To this end, Contrail federations play a key role, allowing users to exploit resources belonging to different cloud providers, regardless of the kind of technology of the providers and with a homogeneous, secure interface. Vertical integration is achieved by developing both the Infrastructure- and the Platform-as-a-Service levels within the project. A third key point is the adoption of a fully open-source approach toward technology and standards. Beside supporting user authentication and applications deployment, Contrail federations aim at providing extended SLA management functionalities, by integrating the SLA management approach of SLA@SOI project in the federation architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_19
international conference on parallel processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
integrated approach,sla management approach,contrail federation,extended sla management functionalities,user lock-in,open-source approach,soi project,cloud federation,contrail project,academic technology,user authentication
Conference
7155
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
13
0.95
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emanuele Carlini116620.15
Massimo Coppola214613.57
Patrizio Dazzi324924.78
Laura Ricci415114.12
Giacomo Righetti5130.95