The 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms

Authors are encouraged, but not limited, to cover the following topics:

• Cross-cloud systems: resource management across multiple clouds (e.g., load balancing, performance optimization, security and privacy policy enforcement).

• Containers and Virtual Machine (VM) management across several cloud infrastructures (e.g., VM placement and migration).

• Fog/edge computing: fog-based infrastructures, caching, performance and services.

• Micro-services: system design, monitoring and management using containers and/or microkernels to achieve cloud provider independence.

• Cross-Cloud agility: dynamic application deployment across multiple cloud platforms, flexibility in moving between different providers and vendors.

• Hybrid cloud infrastructures management (e.g., public and private clouds, heterogeneous cloud systems, cloud and cluster/grid systems).

• Cloud-bursting: workload offloading, multi-cloud resource scheduling strategies.

• Cross-cloud SDKs and APIs: design, maintenance, support and performance evaluation.

• Application portability: priorities, restrictions, and lock-in mitigation techniques and measures.

• API interoperability: study cases and experiences with data and applications.

• Interoperability between managed services (e.g., MapReduce, DB, message queues, etc.).

• Decision support systems: efficient and open application deployment and monitoring across different cloud platforms and providers; cloud brokerage as a means of complexity outsourcing.

• Scalable multi-cloud monitoring: monitoring among different cloud environments; relevant metrics at the different levels of the stack (e.g., network access); monitoring overhead analysis.

• Experiences: assembling and (re)deploying in heterogeneous multi-cloud environments; costs and benefits of cross-cloud management and deployment; challenges in existing cross-cloud platforms; case studies on building or federating multi-cloud systems.

• Cross-Cloud security: Identity and access management across infrastructure boundaries, reconciling application security and privacy requirements across multiple SLAs.