PoliCloud allows to develop research on several topics. Among them are:

• Development of cloud applications CPU and/or memory intensive with high availability requirements
• Development and test of new cloud infrastructures
• Design of new adaptive algorithms for allocation/deallocation of Virtual Machines
• Design and test of new energy-efficient workload allocation policies in clouds
• Development of cyber physical systems that integrate small devices and wireless sensor networks with cloud-based components
• Big data applications and social network data analysis