Intercloud
Encyclopedia
The Intercloud is an interconnected global "cloud of clouds
" and an extension of the Internet
"network of networks" on which it is based. The term was first used in the context of cloud computing
in 2007 when Kevin Kelly opined that "eventually we'll have the intercloud, the cloud of clouds". It became popular in 2009 and has also been used to describe the datacenter of the future.
The Intercloud scenario is based on the key concept that each single cloud does not have infinite physical resources. If a cloud saturates, the computational and storage resources of its infrastructure, it would not be able to satisfy further requests for service allocations sent from its clients. The Intercloud scenario aims to address such a situation, and in theory, each cloud can use the computational and storage resources of the infrastructures of other clouds. Such forms of pay-for-use may introduce new business opportunities among cloud providers if they manage to go beyond the theoretical framework.
Nevertheless, the Intercloud raises many more challenges than solutions concerning federation, security, interoperability, vendors' lock-ins, trust, legal issues, QoS, monitoring, and billing.
applied for on 10 October 2006 and were granted a "Notice of Allowance" on 5 August 2008 (the same week that Dell Computer's controversial application for "cloud computing
" was discovered and denied). Status was 'Abandoned' as of 8 March 2010, with reason: "No Statement of Use filed after Notice of Allowance was issued".
Since then, the trademark has been registered in the European Union and Switzerland.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
" and an extension of the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
"network of networks" on which it is based. The term was first used in the context of cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
in 2007 when Kevin Kelly opined that "eventually we'll have the intercloud, the cloud of clouds". It became popular in 2009 and has also been used to describe the datacenter of the future.
The Intercloud scenario is based on the key concept that each single cloud does not have infinite physical resources. If a cloud saturates, the computational and storage resources of its infrastructure, it would not be able to satisfy further requests for service allocations sent from its clients. The Intercloud scenario aims to address such a situation, and in theory, each cloud can use the computational and storage resources of the infrastructures of other clouds. Such forms of pay-for-use may introduce new business opportunities among cloud providers if they manage to go beyond the theoretical framework.
Nevertheless, the Intercloud raises many more challenges than solutions concerning federation, security, interoperability, vendors' lock-ins, trust, legal issues, QoS, monitoring, and billing.
Trademark
Trend MicroTrend Micro
Trend Micro Inc. is a computer security company. It is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and markets Trend Micro Internet Security, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security, OfficeScan, and other related security products and services...
applied for on 10 October 2006 and were granted a "Notice of Allowance" on 5 August 2008 (the same week that Dell Computer's controversial application for "cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
" was discovered and denied). Status was 'Abandoned' as of 8 March 2010, with reason: "No Statement of Use filed after Notice of Allowance was issued".
Since then, the trademark has been registered in the European Union and Switzerland.
External links
- The Intercloud by Greg PapadopoulosGreg PapadopoulosGreg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sun Microsystems from September 1994 until February 2010. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law.Papadopoulos achieved a...
, CTO & EVP, R&D at Sun MicrosystemsSun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... - Intercloud: The Evolution of Global Application Delivery
- InterCloud: Scaling of Applications across multiple Cloud Computing Environments, by R. Buyya, R. Ranjan, R. Calheiros, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010, Busan, South Korea, May 21–23, 2010), LNCS, Springer, Germany, 2010.
- Security And Cloud Computing: Intercloud Identity Management Infrastructure, by A. Celesti, F. Tusa, M. Villari, A. Puliafito, Proceedings of The 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010) - ETNGRID, Tei of Larissa, Greece June 2010.