Positioning Antifragility for Clouds on Public Infrastructures

Abstract

Cloud computing scalably and sustainably utilizes computing and communication resources. One segment of the cloud ecosystem is the services built upon public infrastructures to address general benefits. This segment itself is an open system, involving many contributors and stakeholders, and its growth and development is an unpredictable process influenced by economical, societal and technological factors.This paper argues the antifragility as an indispensable feature for cloud computing, and proposes a development process for the open system to maintain, improve and prosper under contradicting interests of users, companies and governments. The proposal emphasizes multi-player's roles and interaction, and the temporal and spatial interleaving of development stages of different application domains.