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Eliciting Risk, Quality and Cost Aspects in Multi-cloud Environments

Authors:
Victor Munte ́s-Mulero
Peter Matthews
Aida Omerovic
Alexander Gunka

Keywords: Multicloud, Risk assessment, Quality predition, Cost prediction

Abstract:
With the increasing number of providers offering cloud-based services, new opportunities arise to build applications capable of avoiding vendor lock-in issues. Such applications are developed in multi-cloud environments that allow replacing services with those offered by alternative providers. While this may improve quality and provide independence from a single cloud service provider, it also brings new risks. Being able to assess risks and those quality aspects that are specifically related to multi-cloud environments is essential in order to design reliable applications based on the use of cloud services. Although a lot of work has been done to study risks and quality aspects for cloud services, this is usually focused in single-provider scenarios. In this position paper, we discuss several risks and quality aspects that are specifically related to multi-cloud environments.

Pages: 25 to 30

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-271-4

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013