Cloud computing represents the most recent enterprise trend in information technology and
refers to the virtualization of computing resources that are available on demand. Cloud …

The study we have conducted of existing cloud platforms shows that their operating requires
the use of specific and proprietary APIs. This PaaS providers' policy is hampering the …

This discussion paper argues that there are five fundamental pitfalls, which can restrict
academics from conducting cloud computing research at the infrastructure level, which is …

Abstract Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) clouds offer services to automate the deployment and
management of applications, relieving application owners of the complexity of managing the …

Cloud computing has emerged as the main paradigm for hosting and delivering computing
resources as services over Internet. It provides a delivery model for computing resources at …

In recent years, the cloud hype has led to a multitude of different providers and offerings
across the entire cloud market, from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a …

To tackle the cloud-provider lock-in, the open grid forum is developing the open cloud
computing interface (OCCI), a standardized interface for managing any kind of cloud …

Abstract Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) is the only open standard for managing
any kinds of cloud resources, eg, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and …

The proliferation of Cloud Computing platforms has led to the emergence of a large number
of heterogeneous platform resources, services, application programming interfaces and …

To tackle the cloud-provider lock-in, the Open Grid Forum (OGF) is developing the Open
Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), a standardized interface for managing any kind of cloud …