SeaClouds: Seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications

How to deploy and manage, in an efficient and adaptive way, complex applications over multiple heterogeneous PaaS platforms is one of the problems that have emerged with the cloud revolution. The recently started EU research project SeaClouds aims at enabling a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and migration of application modules over multiple heterogeneous PaaS platforms. In this paper, after presenting context, motivations and objectives of the project, we position SeaClouds with respect to related cloud initiatives and discuss its initial