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An Analysis of Cloud Interoperability Standards onVarious Service Models

Abstract

The cloud-computing community typically uses the term interoperability to refer to the ability to easily move workloads and the data from one cloud provider to another or between private and public clouds. Interoperability requires standard data models and communication technologies compatible with existing internet infrastructure. Typically, cloud of computing consists of the three cloud layers infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS) and software (SaaS) as a service .In addition we can differentiate between (hardware or software) resources provided in a traditional way, and as a server version of them, which considers virtualization, multitenancy and elasticity as the main properties. However the lack of standards seems to be a drawback related to the interoperability. Convenient actions like changing clouds may be an arduous work for its customers .Therefore, this paper presents major consideration regarding the lack of cloud standards and pointing why this is considered to be a problem.This leads to a set of important observation towards a solution solving the interoperability and standardization problem. The paper also explores the role of standards in cloud computing interoperability. The goal of the paper is to provide basic insight into areas of cloud computing in which standards would be useful for interoperability and areas in which standards would not help or would need to mature to any value

SuchethaVijayakumar, LenitaVelezaSerrao2, Hancel Anacletus D’Souza

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