Paper Info
Title
Towards Distributed Clouds A Review About The Evolution Of Centralized Cloud Computing, Distributed Ledger Technologies, And A Foresight On Unifying Opportunities And Security Implications
Abstract
This review focuses on the evolution of cloud computing and distributed ledger technologies (blockchains) over the last decade. Cloud computing relies mainly on a conceptually centralized service provisioning model, while blockchain technologies originate from a peer-to-peer and a completely distributed approach. Still, noteworthy commonalities between both approaches are often overlooked by researchers. Therefore, to the best of the authors knowledge, this paper reviews both domains in parallel for the first time. We conclude that both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of centralized service provisioning approaches are often the disadvantages of distributed ledger approaches and vice versa. It is obviously an interesting question whether both approaches could be combined in a way that the advantages can be added while the disadvantages could be avoided. We derive a software stack that could build the foundation unifying the best of these two worlds and that would avoid existing shortcomings like vendor lock-in, some security problems, and inherent platform dependencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/HPCS.2018.00108
PROCEEDINGS 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & SIMULATION (HPCS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
serverless, cloud computing, distributed clouds, blockchain, distributed ledger, security
Data science,Service provisioning,Computer science,Server,Vendor,Futures studies,Software,Blockchain,Distributed ledger,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Westerlund14312.89
Nane Kratzke25710.62