Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohamed Eldehiry, Hani Jamjoom, Hai Huang and Hakim Weatherspoon
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)
Portland, OR, June 2011
Abstract. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds are evolving from
offering simple on-demand resources to providing
diverse sets of tightly-coupled monolithic
services. Like OS kernels of the 1980’s and 1990’s,
these monolithic offerings, albeit rich in features,
are significantly constraining users’ freedom and
control over the underlying— cloud—resources. For
example, we are unaware of a true hybrid cloud,
where its users can migrate virtual machines freely
across clouds. This paper argues for a new type of
IaaS cloud, an xCloud, that builds on ideas from
extensible OSs to give users the flexibility to
install custom cloud extensions, which can address
the limitations outlined above. We describe the
design space for xClouds, including a practical
approach for transforming today’s public clouds into
xClouds.
Bibtex.
@inproceedings{jamjoom-hotcloud-11,
author = {Dan and Williams and Eslam and Elnikety and Mohamed and Eldehiry and Hani and Jamjoom and Hai and Huang and Hakim and Weatherspoon},
title = {{Unshackle the Cloud!}},
booktitle = {USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)},
address = {Portland, OR},
month = {June},
year = {2011}
}