IaaS Cloud Architecture: From Virtualized Datacenters to Federated Cloud Infrastructures
Rafael Moreno‐Vozmediano, Ruben Santiago Montero, Ignacio Martin Llorente · Computer · 2012
As a key component in a modern datacenter, the cloud operating system is responsible for managing the physical and virtual infrastructure, orchestrating and commanding service provisioning and deployment, and providing federation capabilities for accessing and deploying virtual resources in remote cloud infrastructures.