TY - BOOK ID - 4863785 TI - Cloud Portability and Interoperability : Issues and Current Trends AU - Di Martino, Beniamino. AU - Cretella, Giuseppina. AU - Esposito, Antonio. PY - 2015 SN - 9783319137018 331913700X 9783319137001 3319137018 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer Science. KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Software Engineering. KW - Computer System Implementation. KW - Communications Engineering, Networks. KW - Computer science. KW - Computer network architectures. KW - Software engineering. KW - Telecommunication. KW - Informatique KW - Réseaux d'ordinateurs KW - Génie logiciel KW - Télécommunications KW - Architectures KW - Electrical & Computer Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Telecommunications KW - Cloud computing. KW - Internetworking (Telecommunication) KW - Inter-networking (Telecommunication) KW - Interoperability in computer networks KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Architecture, Computer. KW - Electrical engineering. KW - Computer networks KW - Electronic data processing KW - Web services KW - Distributed processing KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Architectures, Computer network KW - Network architectures, Computer KW - Computer architecture KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - Electric engineering KW - Architecture, Computer KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Network computers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4863785 AB - This book offers readers a quick, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most important methodologies, technologies, APIs and standards related to the portability and interoperability of cloud applications and services, illustrated by a number of use cases representing a variety of interoperability and portability scenarios. The lack of portability and interoperability between cloud platforms at different service levels is the main issue affecting cloud-based services today. The brokering, negotiation, management, monitoring and reconfiguration of cloud resources are challenging tasks for developers and users of cloud applications due to the different business models associated with resource consumption, and to the variety of services and features offered by different cloud providers. In chapter 1 the concepts of cloud portability and interoperability are introduced, together with the issues and limitations arising when such features are lacking or ignored. Subsequently, chapter 2 provides an overview of the state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies that are currently used or being explored to enable cloud portability and interoperability. Chapter 3 illustrates the main cross-platform cloud APIs and how they can solve interoperability and portability issues. In turn, chapter 4 presents a set of ready-to-use solutions which, either because of their broad-scale use in cloud computing scenarios or because they utilize established or emerging standards, play a fundamental part in providing interoperable and portable solutions. Lastly, chapter 5 presents an overview of emerging standards for cloud Interoperability and portability. Researchers and developers of cloud-based services will find here a brief survey of the relevant methodologies, APIs and standards, illustrated by case studies and complemented by an extensive reference list for more detailed descriptions of every topic covered. ER -