CoSSMic Smart Grid Migration in Federated Clouds

Cloud computing is probably the simplest and best fitted way for improving scalability and flexibility ofa smart-grid, however, migrating such critical data-intensive applications to the cloud is not a trivial challenge. For such applications, high security, resilience, and performance are non-negotiable. Therefore, in order to successfully host critical smart-grid applications and workloads, new cloud paradigmsand mechanisms should be adopted to support greater security, resilience, and performance. In this direction, an initiativeby the Second University of Naples aims at ensuring thecritical requirements of data-intensity applications in a highlydistributed cloud federated environment, in which smart-grid applications represent a relevant case study.