Editorial

摘要

The explosion in the interest towards cloud computing architectures is fuelled by tangible savings in power consumption, higher resource utilisation, and abstraction of platforms from technical infrastructure, scalability and business models of 'computing as a utility'. However, it is evident that our existing understanding of distributed computing is already tested by new and exciting use cases such as the private and secure use of public cloud resources, trusted data sources and storage, authentication, encryption, etc.