CYCLONE

CYCLONE is a Horizon 2020 innovation action funded by the European Commission which aims at integrating existing cloud management software to allow a unified management of federated clouds.

CYCLONE integrates Network-as-a-Service, application deployment, service access management as well as end-to-end security solutions. The integration will be validated in diverse application areas, such as bioinformatics, high-energy physics, and cloud application service provisioning.

Both academic and commercial application service providers have embraced Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud offerings for their complex applications which require elasticity, flexibility, and dynamic resource provisioning.

These 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.

CYCLONE's software and tools will facilitate the deployment, management, and use of complex, multi-cloud applications, and enhance the end-to-end security of those applications.