Contrail was a
cloud federation computing project that ran from 1 October 2010 until 31 January 2014. Contrail produced
open-source
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cloud stack software including Security, PaaS components, Distributed file system, Application Lifecycle management middleware, and SLA Management. Contrail supports OVF standard and runs on OpenStack and OpenNebula. Contrail software is a full IaaS + PaaS Cloud stack ready to implement Cloud Federations.
The most recent release is version 1.3, allowing:
* Cloud federation
* SLA Management
* Usage CONtrol
* Login over Google
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XtreemFS
XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks.F. Hupfeld, T. Cortes, B. Kolbeck, E. Focht, M. Hess, J. Malo, J. Marti, J. Stender, E. Cesario"XtreemFS - a case for object-based storage in Grid data management" VLDB ...
support
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SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced ''SAM-el'', ) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider. SAML is an XML-based m ...
Support
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OAuth2
OAuth (short for "Open Authorization") is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. Th ...
standard
* Virtual infrastructure Network (VIN)
* Virtual Execution Platform (VEP)
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Single Sign On
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.
True single sign-on allows the user to log in once and access services without re-enterin ...
(SSO)* Cloud federations*PAAS*IAAS*
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Authorization Server
Authorization or authorisation (see spelling differences) is the function of specifying access rights/privileges to resources, which is related to general information security and computer security, and to access control in particular. More fo ...
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Dynamic-CA
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Hadoop
Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage ...
Contrail is partially funded by the FP7 Programme of the European Commission under Grant Agreement FP7-ICT-257438.
Contrail also allows
virtualization
In computing, virtualization or virtualisation (sometimes abbreviated v12n, a numeronym) is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something at the same abstraction level, including virtual computer hardware platforms, st ...
, alongside Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service. and Hybrid
clouds
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