A brief review of the Internet history reveals the fact that the Internet evolved after the
formation of primarily independent networks. Similarly, interconnected clouds, also called …

Although Cloud computing itself has many open problems, researchers in the field have
already made the leap to envision Inter‐Cloud computing. Their goal is to achieve better …

The greatest challenge beyond trust and security for the long-term adoption of cloud
computing is the interoperability between clouds. In the context of world-wide tremendous …

The adoption of the Cloud computing concept and its market development are nowadays
hindered by the problem of application, data and service portability between Clouds. Open …

The consumption of resources and services from multiple Clouds for reasons like high
availability, cost reductions or special features is a natural evolution from in-silo Clouds …

The success of the cloud computing paradigm is due to its on-demand, self-service, and pay-
by-use nature. According to this paradigm, the effects of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks …

The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as
various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware …

Cloud data centers are becoming the preferred deployment environment for a wide range of
business applications because they provide many benefits compared to private in-house …

Cross-Cloud Federation (CCF) is beneficial for heterogeneous Cloud Service Providers
(CSPs) for leasing additional resources from each other. Despite the benefits of on-demand …

Cloud computing has been consolidated as a support for the vast majority of current and
emerging technologies. However, there are some barriers that prevent the exploitation of the …