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With virtualized infrastructures (clouds), computing and storage become a utility. Just like water or electricity, they are available in virtually infinite amounts, and the consumption can be adapted within seconds, like opening or closing a water tap. By combining a private cloud with external resources from commercial or partner cloud providers, companies will rely on a federation of clouds as their computing infrastructure. A federation of clouds allows them to quickly add temporary resources, when needed, to handle peak loads. Similarly, a federation allows scientific institutions to bundle their resources for joint projects. We envision a peer-to-peer model in which a given company or institution will be both a cloud provider during periods when its IT infrastructure is not used at its maximal capacity and a cloud customer in periods of peak activity. Moreover, we envision that in the future huge data centres will reach their limits in term of size due to energy consumption considerations leading to a new landscape with a wide diversity of clouds (from small to large clouds, from clouds based on data centres to clouds based on highly dynamic distributed infrastructures).
We can thus anticipate the emergence of highly dynamic federations of virtualized infrastructures made up of different clouds. Our general objective is to design and implement system services and mechanisms for autonomous resource management in such federations of virtualized infrastructures.
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