User-controlled resource management in federated clouds

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Comparison of existing cloud resource management solutions

Approach	Open	Integration of	Integration of	Ad hoc	IaaS, SaaS
	source	services from	arbitrary	migration of	and PaaS
		user’s devices	clouds	the managing component
Industry Solutions	No	No	No	No	No
OwnCloud	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Sparkle Share	Yes	No	No	No	No
Aero FS	Yes	No	No	No	No
Anzere [[16]]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
PCP [[17]]	Yes	?	?	?	No
[[20]]	Yes	Yes	No	?	?
[[21]]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Cloud CDI [[22]]	Yes	Yes	?	No	No
Social Cloud [[23]]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Cloud@Home [[18]]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?
Clouds@Home [[19]]	Yes	?	Yes	?	?
Cloud4Home [[24]]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

The solutions are evaluated by means of the criteria defined above. If a matching is not certain due to no or imprecise information, a question mark is entered in the corresponding field.