MATCHBOX 2019 : Workshop on Multi and Hybrid Clouds: Technical Challenges and Business Opportunities

The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss problems, solutions and perspectives of ongoing research activities on the hybrid cloud deployment model with a special focus on the multicloud approach. The multicloud model is designed to provide cloud users with a wider range of cloud-based services to select from according to the dynamics of business needs. The advantages range from an increase of flexibility to reduction of reliance on a single cloud vendor, which in turn brings concrete benefits such as cost effectiveness, service continuity, disaster mitigation, etc. The other side of the multi-cloud coin is the need of thoughtful plans for data governance and compliance following the recent GDPR directive, higher costs due to the management of the cloud sprawl, increase of application delivery’s complexity, deployment and management and more. This workshop encourages submissions that address such issues and propose experimental solutions, case studies, deployed systems and best practices.