Metadata Schema for Data-Aware Multi-Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been recognized as the most prominent way for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. A plethora of cloud service offerings are currently available and are being rapidly adopted by small and medium enterprises but also by larger organisations based on their many superiorities to traditional computing models. However, at the same time the computing requirements of the modern cloud application has been exponentially increased due to the available big data for processing. Nowadays, we discuss the emerging data-intensive applications that necessitate the wide adoption of multi-cloud deployment models, in order to use all the advantages of cloud computing without any restrictions with respect to who is providing infrastructural services. In this paper, we discuss a Metadata Schema for data-aware multi-cloud computing which aspires to form the appropriate background vocabulary that will aid the big data-aware application deployment for distributed and loosely-coupled multi-cloud applications.