OpenNebula Systems has nnounced it has joined a consortium of leading organisations and universities from the U.K., Germany, Spain, Belgium, Israel and Italy focused on developing new innovative techniques to federate cloud network resources and to derive the integrated management cloud layer that enables an efficient and secure deployment of federated cloud applications.
The BEACON project will deliver a homogeneous virtualization layer on top of heterogeneous underlying physical networks, computing and storage infrastructures, providing enablement for automated federation of applications across different clouds and datacenters. Head of Research at OpenNebula Systems, Dr. Constantino Vázquez, said: