S. Dippl, M. Jäger, A. Luhn, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, G. Vernik
{"title":"Towards Federation and Interoperability of Cloud Storage Systems","authors":"S. Dippl, M. Jäger, A. Luhn, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, G. Vernik","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH005","url":null,"abstract":"While it is common to use storage in a cloud-based manner, the question of true interoperability is rarely fully addressed. This question becomes even more relevant since the steadily growing amount of data that needs to be stored will supersede the capacity of a single system in terms of resources, availability, and network throughput quite soon. The logical conclusion is that a network of systems needs to be created that is able to cope with the requirements of big data applications and data deluge scenarios. This chapter shows how federation and interoperability will fit into a cloud storage scenario. The authors take a look at the challenges that federation imposes on autonomous, heterogeneous, and distributed cloud systems, and present approaches that help deal with the special requirements introduced by the VISION Cloud use cases from healthcare, media, telecommunications, and enterprise domains. Finally, the authors give an overview on how VISION Cloud addresses these requirements in its research scenarios and architecture.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125345036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content Centric Storage and Current Storage Systems","authors":"M. Jäger, U. Hohenstein","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH003","url":null,"abstract":"Content-centric storage represents an approach for handling large amounts of data. It is one of the innovations pursued by the VISION Cloud project. The goal of the VISION Cloud project is the development of an industry grade storage system using cloud technology. The envisaged use of the VISION Cloud involves the storage and management of millions of data items, potentially several hundreds of terabytes in size. On the one hand, the technical foundations must be capable of efficiently storing such an amount of data. On the other hand, the VISION Cloud must provide adequate means of an API for allowing the efficient navigation, search, and access for the right data item in this storage. For the latter purpose, VISION Cloud provides a data access layer, which is called “Content Centric Interface.” Applications can use this data access layer for accessing the VISION Cloud storage from a content-centric point of view, abstracted from actual storage representation. The content centric interface is different from existing cloud storage interfaces and is similar, from an architectural point of view, to object relational mapping frameworks for traditional applications with relational database systems.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122950626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Models and Billing Challenges","authors":"J. Elicegui, Lei Xu, Emilio Javier García Escobar","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH004","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION \" The Cloud \" is a new paradigm that is increasingly consolidating itself inside IT industry and that will change computing inside companies they way we know it. The same way that in past times bread was kneaded and raised at each home, and nowadays this has become quite odd, in a few years time it will be strange for a company or public institution not to have its own IT platform in the Internet. The reasons behind this change are the clear advantages that the Cloud offers: flexibility to obtain resources on demand, easy management , access from any geographical location, cost shifting from CAPEX to OPEX (allowing finer control of expenditure and avoiding costly acquisition of assets), and cost reduction due to economies of scale and strong competition among cloud providers. ABSTRACT The advent of the Cloud has leveraged a number of challenges, both for customers and service providers. Companies willing to embrace the new paradigm must face some entrance barriers, such as security, privacy and trust concerns, vendor locking risk, legal issues, etc. While service providers may work to minimize these barriers, they must be especially careful when defining what may constitute the most crucial aspect for the success of their offerings: the business model. Different incarnations of the cloud (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) add to the possibility of offering public or private solutions, or even federated models. On top of this is the billing strategy: the ubiquitous pay-per-use approach (either in its most common post-paid incarnation, or in a novel prepaid version) is only the starting point for a wide range of innovative solutions, including bundling or QoS considerations, which European project VISION Cloud is tackling as part of its research efforts. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive discussion on the most relevant business factors that the Cloud confronts. As of now, there are still great differences between the speed at which this paradigm change is taking place in one place or another. In some cases there are not yet enough companies demanding these kind of services to form a critical mass, or the services offered are scarce. Even in those places where there are strong cloud providers, the problem is often related to medium-to-large company CEOs that are reluctant to change. People in charge of IT in those companies are aware of the advantages of having a Cloud infrastructure, but they are hesitant …","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131624611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cloud-TM","authors":"J. Barreto, P. D. Sanzo, R. Palmieri, P. Romano","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133507287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}