Challenges to be addressed for realising an Ephemeral Cloud Federation

TL;DR

This paper discusses the key challenges in developing an Ephemeral Cloud Federation, a dynamic, personalized, and context-aware cloud paradigm that integrates private data-centres, cloud providers, and edge resources.

Contribution

It identifies the main technical and operational challenges to realize a flexible, heterogeneous, and highly distributed Ephemeral Cloud Federation.

Findings

Highlights the need for dynamic resource management

Emphasizes heterogeneity handling in federated clouds

Addresses privacy and security concerns

Abstract

This paper sketches the challenges to address to realise a support able to achieve an Ephemeral Cloud Federation, an innovative cloud computing paradigm that enables the exploitation of a dynamic, personalised and context-aware set of resources. The aim of the Ephemeral Federation is to answer to the need of combining private data-centres with both federation of cloud providers and the resource on the edge of the network. The goal of the Ephemeral Federation is to deliver a context-aware and personalised federations of computational, data and network resources, able to manage their heterogeneity in a highly distributed deployment, which can dynamically bring data and computation close to the final user.