Standards Based Integration of Intercloud for Federation with OpenStack

Cloud computing model has been among the main stream popular new technologies by providing services such as software, platform and infrastructure. In the process of providing better services for customers, cloud service providers have developed proprietary standards on how cloud application interacts with their cloud. This has been limiting the cloud adoption because of the vendor lock-in and portability issues. The need for the business application on clouds to be interoperable is increasing. The cloud federation would be the solution in providing on demand resources and better scalability. The IEEE cloud computing working standard groups have certain standards to build interoperable cloud environment. The paper explores the approach for cloud federation by using standard protocols by implementing IEEE standards as a proof of concept using multiple OpenStack environment, which can be easily extended to other clouds (AWS, Azure, VMware) and finally conclude with benefits of using standards based federation.