SUPERCLOUD virtualization allows flexible but efficient user-centric multi-cloud trade-offs between interoperability and security, with automation of protection. SUPERCLOUD also enables user-centric data encryption, with dependability guarantees across multiple administrative domains. Finally, SUPERCLOUD enables tenants to create virtual networks with customized topologies and addressing schemes spanning datacenters of multiple providers with the required isolation level.
SUPERCLOUD technology opens multiple paths for exploitation, focusing on 3 key markets: cloud brokerage markets to offer on-demand networks with fully à la carte security in the context of uberized virtualized network infrastructures; blockchain markets to guarantee strong and flexible data protection in multiple administrative domains, and target of strategic investments of key SUPERCLOUD partners across many business cases supported by a major open source project (e.g. Hyperledger); and cloud healthcare markets to meet security, data availability, and interoperability requirements, and to improve existing services and launch new products. More vertical markets may be supported as SUPERCLOUD provides an open framework.
For commercial exploitation, partners leveraged their business units to incorporate SUPERCLOUD results into existing portfolios and innovation management processes, to develop new products or services, or through startup creation, e.g. around the Janus storage technology.
To promote research excellence of SUPERCLOUD, partners contributed a great number of publications in top-class conferences such as OSDI, NDSI, CCS, EuroSys, DSN, CLOUD, CCGRID, or DBSec, or prestigious journals such as IEEE TPDS, DTSC, Cloud Computing, or Security & Privacy. Orange and IBM were interviewed by the IEEE to share the SUPERCLOUD perspective, resulting in a widely disseminated paper increasing project visibility. At EuroSys’17, partners organized the very successful ACM XDOM0 workshop on Security and Availability of Multi-Domain Infrastructures. Orange co-organized two editions of the SEC2 workshop on Cloud Security with SUPERCLOUD keynotes and papers. The SUPERCLOUD collaborative information platform was regularly updated, with publication of a newsletter. Training activities led by TUDA also fostered wider acceptance of SUPERCLOUD results, e.g. Summer School on Secure & Trustworthy Computing.
Many SUPERCLOUD components were open sourced, notably the Hyperledger Fabric, and the security monitoring framework. Standardization was also very active, e.g. on NFV at ETSI, or on encrypted objects and access control for healthcare at SNIA CDMI. Standardization efforts of SUPERCLOUD and H2020 SSICLOPS were synchronized to push recommendations on Trusted Inter-Cloud Computing at ITU-T.
Thus, SUPERCLOUD will enable user-centric and secure multi-cloud execution environments, enhancing cloud computing with innovative technologies and services, creating new business opportunities along several verticals of the multi-cloud ecosystem, uplifting Europe´s innovation capacity, and improving its competitiveness.
