@inbook{a4910c17cb7241c4b55ef96a83136066,
title = "Multibox: Lightweight containers for vendor-independent multi-cloud deployments",
abstract = "Cloud computing aims to make a large selection of sophisticated technologies available to users for deployment and migration. In reality, once a cloud service provider has been chosen, migration is often a costly and time-consuming process. This paper presents Multi-Box, a lightweight container technology that facilitates flexible vendorindependent migration. Our framework allows its users to deploy and migrate almost any application in its normal state with minimal computational and network resource overheads. We show that the performance overhead of deploying within a lightweight container is 4.90\% of the resources available to an average VM and downtime during a migration is less than the time needed to scale a server using provider-centric tools.",
keywords = "Cloud computing, Containers, Multi-cloud systems, Workload migration",
author = "James Hadley and Yehia Elkhatib and Gordon Blair and Utz Roedig",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 1st Workshop on Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies, EGC 2015 ; Conference date: 26-02-2015 Through 28-02-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-25043-4\_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319250427",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "79--90",
editor = "Ross Horne",
booktitle = "Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies - 1st Workshop, EGC 2015, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}