Chapter 10. Future Trends and Research Directions
This chapter describes future trends and research directions in cloud computing. The first few sections describe upcoming standards for cloud platform vendors and benchmarks that enable a cloud user to compare multiple cloud platforms. OpenCirrus, an open cloud research testbed, is described along with some of the details of novel tools developed for cloud-scale management. Since this book is developer oriented, the future of cloud application development leading towards end user programming is also covered in this chapter. Finally, the chapter concludes with ...

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