Intercloud
The Intercloud[1] is an interconnected global "cloud of clouds"[2][3] and an extension of the Internet "network of networks" on which it is based.[4] The term was first used in the context of cloud computing in 2007 when Kevin Kelly opined that "eventually we'll have the intercloud, the cloud of clouds".[2] It became popular in 2009[5] and has also been used to describe the datacenter of the future.[6]
The Intercloud scenario is based on the key concept that each single cloud does not have infinite physical resources. If a cloud saturates, the computational and storage resources of its infrastructure, it would not be able to satisfy further requests for service allocations sent from its clients. The Intercloud scenario aims to address such a situation, and in theory, each cloud can use the computational and storage resources of the infrastructures of other clouds. Such forms of pay-for-use may introduce new business opportunities among cloud providers if they manage to go beyond the theoretical framework. [7]
Nevertheless, the Intercloud raises many more challenges than solutions concerning federation, security, interoperability, vendors' lock-ins, trust, legal issues, QoS, monitoring, and billing.
Trademark
Trend Micro applied for U.S. Trademark 77,018,125 on 10 October 2006 and were granted a "Notice of Allowance" on 5 August 2008 (the same week that Dell Computer's controversial application for "cloud computing" was discovered[8] and denied[9]). Status was 'Abandoned' as of 8 March 2010, with reason: "No Statement of Use filed after Notice of Allowance was issued". Since then, the trademark has been registered in the European Union and Switzerland.
See also
References
- ^ Bernstein, David; Ludvigson, Erik; Sankar, Krishna; Diamond, Steve; Morrow, Monique (2009-05-24). Blueprint for the Intercloud - Protocols and Formats for Cloud Computing Interoperability. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 328–336. doi:10.1109/ICIW.2009.55. http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICIW.2009.55.
- ^ a b Kevin Kelly: A Cloudbook for the Cloud
- ^ Intercloud is a global cloud of clouds
- ^ Vint Cerf: Despite Its Age, The Internet is Still Filled with Problems
- ^ SP360: Service Provider: From India to Intercloud
- ^ Head in the clouds? Welcome to the future
- ^ A. Celesti, F. Tusa, M. Villari, A. Puliafito - How to Enhance Cloud Architectures to Enable Cross-Federation - Cloud Computing (CLOUD). 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 337-345, doi=10.1109/CLOUD.2010.46
- ^ Dell Seeks, May Receive 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
- ^ Dell cloud computing denied
External links
- The Intercloud by Greg Papadopoulos, CTO & EVP, R&D at Sun Microsystems
- Intercloud: The Evolution of Global Application Delivery
- InterCloud: Scaling of Applications across multiple Cloud Computing Environments, by R. Buyya, R. Ranjan, R. Calheiros, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010, Busan, South Korea, May 21–23, 2010), LNCS, Springer, Germany, 2010.
- Security And Cloud Computing: Intercloud Identity Management Infrastructure, by A. Celesti, F. Tusa, M. Villari, A. Puliafito, Proceedings of The 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010) - ETNGRID, Tei of Larissa, Greece June 2010.