Personal and Federated Cloud Management Cockpit

Abstract:

Following the Everything-as-a-Service paradigm, digital and physical assets such as software, data and hardware resources can be offered and delivered as services by their respective owners. The rise of service-oriented personal cloud computing requires new techniques for users to perform asset discovery, exchange and management. These techniques must be easy to use and yet powerful enough to result in largescale distributed systems over federated personal clouds. With CloudRemix, an interactive cockpit to manage personal clouds and their federations, we achieve a reduced reliance on central infrastructures and a raised balance of service provisioning and consumption. Attached to a novel local device discovery tool named FlexiSource, to a service registry and to a social network, the CloudRemix prototype demonstrates its utility to manage personal clouds in both social and market-driven environments.