Inception: Towards a Nested Cloud Architecture
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Inception Clouds are built entirely on top of the virtual resources
acquired from today’s clouds, and provide nested VMs to end users.

Inception Clouds enable:

- Acceleration of continuous integration for open-source cloud
  management software such as OpenStack

- Hypervisor flexibility: VM live migration, VM replication for high
  availability, instant VM spawning under high load demand, intrusion
  detection by customizing Dom0 firewall...

- App-specific resource allocation: customize subscription ratio, VM
  consolidation

- Low operation overhead: no physical metals, therefore no worry on
  issues like cooling, power, cabling, rack design, malfunctioned
  hardware replacement, data center real estate

- Spanning across multiple providers: both private and public clouds
  over geographically wide area

Essentially, Inception Clouds enable entire control of your cloud,
with even less operation overhead.

For more information, please refer to our HotCloud'13 paper

  http://www2.research.att.com/~changbl/pubs/Inception_Towards_a_Nested_Cloud_Architecture.pdf

The code is rapidly evolving. Stay tuned!