Cloud computing technology promotes the provisioning of IT infrastructures as services.
Cloud systems have become very common because of their advantages, such as the large …

Cloud computing infrastructures support dynamical and flexible access to computational,
network and storage resources. To date, several disjoint industrial and academic …

Cloud Federation is an emerging computing model where multiple resources from
independent Cloud providers are leveraged to create large-scale distributed virtual …

Cloud Computing offers on-demand access to computational, infrastructure and data
resources operated from a remote source. This novel technology has opened new ways of …

The concept of cloud federations recently attracted the focus of attention of the research
community. Cloud federations allow cloud providers to cooperate through the integration of …

Cloud federation has been proposed as a new paradigm that allows providers to avoid the
limitation of owning only a restricted amount of resources, which forces them to reject new …

Cloud Computing is the state of the art computation paradigm enabling providers to offer
computing resources to customers in a pay-per-use fashion. Nowadays public Cloud …

Cloud Federation is an emerging computing model where multiple resources from
independent Cloud providers are leveraged to create large-scale distributed virtual …

The advent of the cloud computing paradigm offers different ways both to sell services and to
exploit external computational resources according to a pay-per-use economic model …

In the last few years the broad diffusion of Cloud Computing has encouraged the
proliferation of cloud computing providers. However, providers often propose their services …