Track Chair's Report: Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management CDCGM 2017
Fabrizio Messina, Rao Mikkilineni, Giovanni Morana, Domenico Rosaci · 2017
This track started in 2009 with opening remarks from the Chair observing that the computing cloud evolution depends on research efforts from the infrastructure providers creating next generation hardware that is service friendly, service developers that embed business service intelligence in the computing infrastructure to create distributed business workflow execution services and service providers who assure service delivery on a massive scale with global interoperability. The state of the art architecture and evolution of the cloud at that time was already increasing datacenter complexity by piling up new layers of management over the many layers that already exist. Since then, the scale of distributed applications and their management have taken a new dimension demanding tolerance to wild fluctuations both in workloads and available computing resource pools. There are many calls to go cloud native and architect applications using the many services provided by the cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services. On the other hand, there are also calls for avoiding vendor lock-in by going multi-cloud and becoming cloud agnostic. In this conference there is a new paper that proposes cloud agnostic approach with globally interoperable cloud network using private or public network while reducing the complexity of Virtual machine image motion across clouds. In addition, there are 7 papers describing advances in current distributed and cloud computing practices dealing with quality of service, adaptive algorithms and software defined network architectures.