Federated Clouds & Architectural Overview of ...

Federated Clouds & Architectural Overview of Reservoir

Author Name : Durga Kumar, Sandeep Kumar

ABSTRACT Cloud computing provides variety of services to its customers with facilities like dynamic scaling of applications, platforms and hardware infrastructure. But the underlying physical resources on the service providers’ side are limited, which means the concept of infinite scalability is mere illusion. The rate at which the cloud subscribers are increasing, in near future the problem of scalability is expected to worsen. Federated cloud proves to be a effective step in dealing with the scalability issue in cloud and to provide a better infrastructure control. In federated cloud the various service providers (infrastructure) share their resources with each other and with the application of suitable virtualization layer the hardware utilization and system efficiency is increased significantly. This article discusses the basic architecture of federated cloud (RESERVOIR PROJECT) along with its major components.