Intercloud Architecture for Interoperability and Integration
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This paper presents on-going research to develop the Intercloud Architecture (ICA) Framework that should address problems in multi-provider multi-domain heterogeneous Cloud based infrastructure services and applications integration and interoperability, including integration and interoperability with legacy infrastructure services. Cloud technologies are evolving as a common way of infrastructure services and resources virtualisation and provisioning on-demand. In this way, they bring applications and infrastructure services mobility and physical/hardware platform independency to the existing distributed computing and networking technologies. The paper refers to existing standards in Cloud Computing, in particular, recently published NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA). The proposed Intercloud Architecture Framework defines four complimentary components addressing Intercloud interoperability and integration: multi-layer Cloud Services Model that combines commonly adopted cloud service models, such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, in one multilayer model with corresponding inter-layer interfaces; Intercloud Control and Management Plane that supports cloud based applications interaction; Intercloud Federation Framework, Intercloud Operation Framework. The paper briefly presents the architectural framework for cloud based infrastructure services provisioned on-demand being developed by authors that can be used as a basis for building multilayer cloud services integration framework that can allow optimised provisioning of both computing, storage and networking resources. The proposed architecture is intended to provide a conceptual model for developing Intercloud middleware and in this way will facilitate clouds interoperability and integration.
TNO Identifier
462116
Publisher
Universiteit van Amaterdam
Collation
15 p.
Place of publication
Amsterdam