Poster: Towards Multi-Stakeholder Clouds

Cloud providers are embracing edge computing by developing multi-stakeholder clouds (MClouds), in which the infrastructure is shared among cloud providers, hosting site operators, and, sometimes, system integrators (Figure 1). The emergence of the MCloud comes with a new set of systems challenges stemming from its multi-stakeholder nature. In public clouds, the responsibility for infrastructure lies with the cloud provider. The cloud provider owns, manages, and operates all their servers and switches inside their datacenter. However, in the case of MClouds, the division of responsibilities becomes less clear. Should the cloud provider still handle tasks like powering servers, installing firmware updates, and monitoring server health, or is this now the responsibility of the hosting site's administrator team?