Academic Cloud computing research : five pitfalls and five opportunities
Abstract
This discussion paper argues that there are five fundamental pitfalls, which can restrict academics from conducting cloud computing research at the infrastructure level, which is currently where the vast majority of academic research lies. Instead academics should be conducting higher risk research, in order to gain understanding and open up entirely new areas. We call for a renewed mindset and argue that academic research should focus less upon physical infrastructure and embrace the abstractions provided by clouds through five opportunities: user driven research, new programming models, PaaS environments, and improved tools to support elasticity and large-scale debugging. The objective of this paper is to foster discussion, and to define a roadmap forward, which will allow academia to make longer-term impacts to the cloud computing community.
Citation
Barker , A , Varghese , B , Stuart Ward , J & Sommerville , I 2014 , Academic Cloud computing research : five pitfalls and five opportunities . in 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'14) . USENIX .
Publication
6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'14)
Type
Conference item
Rights
Copyright 2014. The Authors. Originally published as Academic Cloud computing research: five pitfalls and five opportunities Barker, A., Varghese, B., Stuart Ward, J. & Sommerville, I. 17 Jun 2014 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'14). USENIX. Available from https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud14/workshop-program/presentation/barker
Description
Date of Acceptance: 25/04/2014Collections
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