The Cloud Interoperability Challenge

Many efforts to develop open cloud standards, which could enable interoperability among clouds, are underway. However, the critical challenge here is to develop standardization solutions for a number of technical issues. Ultimately, coordinating the many standardization efforts will pose a hard challenge for future. The paper provides research issues and directions related to cloud interoperability. In the cloud computing landscape, “cloud interoperability” typically refers to the ability to seamlessly deploy, migrate, and manage application workloads across heterogeneous hardware and software resources provided by multiple datacenter cloud providers (such as Amazon and GoGrid).