Trustworthy geographically fenced hybrid clouds
K. R. Jayaram, David R. Safford, Upendra K. Sharma, Vijay K. Naik, Dimitrios E. Pendarakis, Tao Shu · 2014
Adoption of hybrid clouds by enterprises has been hampered by the inability of current hybrid cloud infrastructures to provide scalable and efficient mechanisms (1) to ensure the trustworthiness and integrity of the software stack executing a hybrid application workload, or (2) to enforce governmental privacy, data jurisdiction and audit regulations by ensuring that remote data and computation do not cross specified geographic boundaries.