The authors present INDIGO-DataCloud for deploying cloud applications across multiple cloud management platforms (CMPs) that require complex topologies and operational requirements, such as auto scaling resources according to dynamic application needs. The evolution of standards for cloud technologies and frameworks is often not at the same pace as the solutions brought forth, which limits the potential of a given cloud infrastructure and often limits/decreases the functionality and flexibility of the solutions developed. The authors lament that cloud solution providers do not allow scientific users span over several different infrastructures.
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