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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Tools for Cloud Accountability: A4Cloud Tutorial

Authors : Carmen Fernandez-Gago, Vasilis Tountopoulos, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Rehab Alnemr, David Nuñez, Julio Angulo, Tobias Pulls, Theo Koulouris

Published in: Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation

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Abstract

Cloud computing is becoming a key IT infrastructure technology being adopted progressively by companies and users. Still, there are issues and uncertainties surrounding its adoption, such as security and how users data is dealt with that require attention from developers, researchers, providers and users. The A4Cloud project tries to help solving the problem of accountability in the cloud by providing tools that support the process of achieving accountability. This paper presents the contents of the first A4Cloud tutorial. These contents include basic concepts and tools developed within the project. In particular, we will review how metrics can aid the accountability process and some of the tools that the A4Cloud project will produce such as the Data Track Tool (DTT) and the Cloud Offering Advisory Tool (COAT).

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Footnotes
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Description is taken from the official documentation of the project.
 
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EU FP7 project PrimeLife http://​primelife.​ercim.​eu/​.
 
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Early versions of lo-fi mockups with a trace view visualization were developed within the scope of a Google Research Award project in discussion with technical and HCI specialists from Google.
 
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Python Programming Language: https://​www.​python.​org.
 
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Metadata
Title
Tools for Cloud Accountability: A4Cloud Tutorial
Authors
Carmen Fernandez-Gago
Vasilis Tountopoulos
Simone Fischer-Hübner
Rehab Alnemr
David Nuñez
Julio Angulo
Tobias Pulls
Theo Koulouris
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-18620-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-18621-4

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18621-4_15

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