Abstract Model of Trusted and Secure Middleware Framework for Multi-cloud Environment

Abstract

In the current world of digital advancement, almost every organization is leveraging the services (like storage, computation, networking etc.) from multiple traditional cloud service providers across the world. They are required to collaborate with numerous clouds providers, in order to achieve different variety of services as comply with their business. This imposes a great challenge as how to handle the complex business collaboration with multiple Clouds simultaneously, how to ensure trust and security concerning data storage, computation and networking in such an enormous inter-cloud environment. To efficiently tackle this problem, this paper introduces a trusted middleware framework. This middleware is conceptually designed to reduce the complexity of handling the range of services from many traditional cloud service providers. Here, middleware consists of distinct user-centric multi-cloud (UM-Cloud) for each individual user. UM-Clouds are accomplished to furnish or yield secure as well as transparent services to the user in the form of compliance and trust.