IaaS Cloud Architecture: From Virtualized Datacenters to Federated Cloud Infrastructures

Author

Moreno-Vozmediano, Rafael ; Montero, Rubén S. ; Llorente, Ignacio M.

Author_Institution

Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Volume

45

Issue

12

fYear

2012

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

72

Abstract

As a key component in a modern datacenter, the cloud operating system is responsible for managing the physical and virtual infrastructure, orchestrating and commanding service provisioning and deployment, and providing federation capabilities for accessing and deploying virtual resources in remote cloud infrastructures.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer centres; operating systems (computers); resource allocation; virtual machines; IaaS cloud architecture; cloud operating system; commanding service provisioning; federated cloud infrastructure; federation capability; orchestrating service deployment; physical infrastructure management; remote cloud infrastructure; virtual infrastructure management; virtual resource access; virtual resource deployment; virtualized datacenter; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Hardware; Monitoring; Servers; Virtual machine monitors; distributed systems; emerging technologies; service management; system management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2012.76

Filename

6165242