The Supercloud: Applying Internet Design Principles to Interconnecting Clouds
Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song · IEEE Internet Computing · 2018
Just like we have small dedicated networks in houses, cars, factories, etc., we will have small clouds in all these places. We need a way to glue all these clouds together into a single worldwide infrastructure. The Cloud Abstraction Layer could provide such glue.