Title
Toward an Open Cloud Marketplace: Vision and First Steps
Abstract
Cloud computing's transition from a subject of research and innovation to a critical infrastructure is proceeding incredibly quickly. One potentially dangerous consequence of this speedy transition is the premature adoption and ossification of the models, technologies, and standards underlying this critical infrastructure. Further exacerbating this issue, innovative research on production-scale platforms is becoming the purview of just a few public cloud providers. Specifically, academic research communities are effectively excluded from contributing meaningfully to the evolution--not to mention innovation and healthy mutation--of cloud computing technologies. As our society and economy's dependency on cloud computing increases, so does the realization that the academic research community can't be shut out from contributing to the design and evolution of this critical infrastructure. Here, the authors provide an alternative vision--the Open Cloud Exchange (OCX), a public cloud marketplace in which many stakeholders, rather than just a single cloud provider, participate in implementing and operating the cloud. This will create an ecosystem to bring the innovation of a broader community to bear on a much healthier and more efficient cloud marketplace.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MIC.2014.17
Internet Computing, IEEE  
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud computing,innovation management,OCX,academic research communities,cloud computing,cloud implementation,cloud operation,cloud providers,critical infrastructure,innovative research,open cloud exchange,open cloud marketplace,production-scale platforms,technology innovation,technology mutation,IaaS marketplace,cloud computing,open source cloud platforms
World Wide Web,Computer science,Critical infrastructure,Cloud provider,Cloud computing security,Innovation management,Technical report,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
1089-7801
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.53
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Azer Bestavros11065.87
Orran Krieger2221.53