CYCLONE - Complete Dynamic Multi-cloud Application Management

Complex applications are often distributed between cloud infrastructures to provide resilience against cloud provider outages, higher levels of elasticity, and better response times for their users by placing services near the clients. Moreover, they are often designed to scale automatically in response to demand and to permit live upgrades of the underlying software.
Application service providers and developers experience a number of deficiencies in the current cloud ecosystem:
- Heavy relay of distributed applications on network services.
- Lack of a unified identity management scheme between cloud providers
- Control of network resources between data centres through the cloud APIs is currently impossible.
The CYCLONE project primarily targets application service providers who develop complex computing platforms and deploy them on cloud infrastructures in order to facilitate the deployment, management, and use of complex, multi-cloud applications, as well as enhance the end-to-end security of those applications.
Open Source developers
CYCLONE’s primary goal is to provide the software for a production-quality platform that facilitates the deployment and management of complex, cloud-based applications.
The project has identified two flagship applications. An academic cloud platform and associated services for bioinformatics research, and a commercial deployment for smart grids in the energy sector. These use cases are representative of complex applications to be consumed by end-users which demands security, reliability and flexibility while deploying them. Thus, application developers who are the main target of CYCLONE, will be able to easily deploy their applications over distributed federated scenarios with better networking resources control experience, enhanced security and unified identity management.
This is what CYCLONE delivers:
- CYCLONE allows users to aggregate cloud resources from both private and public providers to build a cloud
- platform that is tailored to their application’s needs
- CYCLONE enables dynamic allocation of high-bandwidth channels inside and between data centers
- CYCLONE allow pluggable monitoring services
- CYCLONE implements end-to-end cloud security
To realize these objectives CYCLONE integrates and improves mature, open-source components, such as StratusLab, OpennNaaS, SlipStream and TCTP
Energy