— A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either...
The automatic allocation of enterprise workload to resources can be enhanced by being able to make `whatif' response time predictions, whilst different allocations are being c...
David A. Bacigalupo, Jano van Hemert, Asif Usmani,...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
We consider how underused computing resources within an enterprise may be harnessed to improve utilization and create an elastic computing infrastructure. Most current cloud provi...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Angus Macdonald, ...
Abstract—Virtualized cloud systems are prone to performance anomalies due to various reasons such as resource contentions, software bugs, and hardware failures. In this paper, we...