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Citation
Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohammed Edehiry, Hani Jamjoon, Hai Huang, Hakim Weatherspoon. "Unshackle the Cloud!". Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud),, June, 2011.

Abstract
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds are evolving from offering simple on-demand resources to providing diverse sets of tightly-coupled monolithic services. Like OS kernels of the 1980’s and 1990’s, these monolithic offerings, albeit rich in features, are significantly constraining users’ freedom and control over the underlying—cloud—resources. For example, we are unaware of a true hybrid cloud, where its users can migrate virtual machines freely across clouds. This paper argues for a new type of IaaS cloud, an xCloud, that builds on ideas from extensible OSs to give users the flexibility to install custom cloud extensions, which can address the limitations outlined above. We describe the design space for xClouds, including a practical approach for transforming today’s public clouds into xClouds.

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  Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohammed Edehiry, Hani
  Jamjoon, Hai Huang, Hakim Weatherspoon. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/881.html"
  >Unshackle the Cloud!</a>, Proceedings of the 3rd
  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing
  (HotCloud),, June, 2011.

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  Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohammed Edehiry, Hani
  Jamjoon, Hai Huang, Hakim Weatherspoon. "Unshackle the
  Cloud!". Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot
  Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud),, June, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{WilliamsElniketyEdehiryJamjoonHuangWeatherspoon11_UnshackleCloud,
      author = {Dan Williams and Eslam Elnikety and Mohammed
                Edehiry and Hani Jamjoon and Hai Huang and Hakim
                Weatherspoon},
      title = {Unshackle the Cloud!},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot
                Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud),},
      month = {June},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds are
                evolving from offering simple on-demand resources
                to providing diverse sets of tightly-coupled
                monolithic services. Like OS kernels of the
                1980’s and 1990’s, these monolithic offerings,
                albeit rich in features, are significantly
                constraining users’ freedom and control over the
                underlying—cloud—resources. For example, we
                are unaware of a true hybrid cloud, where its
                users can migrate virtual machines freely across
                clouds. This paper argues for a new type of IaaS
                cloud, an xCloud, that builds on ideas from
                extensible OSs to give users the flexibility to
                install custom cloud extensions, which can address
                the limitations outlined above. We describe the
                design space for xClouds, including a practical
                approach for transforming today’s public clouds
                into xClouds.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/881.html}
  }
  

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