Comparison of Cloud Middleware Protocols and Subscription Network Topologies using CReST, the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit - The Three Truths of Cloud Computing are: Hardware Fails, Software has Bugs, and People Make Mistakes Topics: Cloud Computing Architecture; Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability, Reliability) In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science CLOSER - Volume 1, 58-68, 2013 , Aachen, Germany