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Building Cloud Applications for Challenged Networks

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Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies (EGC 2015)

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Cloud computing has seen vast advancements and uptake in many parts of the world. However, many of the design patterns and deployment models are not very suitable for locations with challenged networks such as countries with no nearby datacenters. This paper describes the problem and discusses the options available for such locations, focusing specifically on community clouds as a short-term solution. The paper highlights the impact of recent trends in the development of cloud applications and how changing these could better help deployment in challenged networks. The paper also outlines the consequent challenges in bridging different cloud deployments, also known as cross-cloud computing.

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Notes

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    http://www.cloudandheat.com/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.qarnot-computing.com/.

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    http://jclouds.apache.org/.

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    https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/.

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    http://www.scalr.com/.

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    https://www.chef.io/.

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    http://www.ansible.com/.

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    https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/.

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The author is grateful for the organisers of the International Workshop on Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies, and in particular Dr. Ross Horne, for their invitation to present and discuss an earlier version of this work. This work was supported in part by the CHIST-ERA Dionasys project grant reference EP/M015734/1.

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Elkhatib, Y. (2015). Building Cloud Applications for Challenged Networks. In: Horne, R. (eds) Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies. EGC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 514. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25043-4_1

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