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CCGRID
2011
IEEE
13 years 11 days ago
Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Clouds
— 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...
Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Timothy Freeman
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Resource management of enterprise cloud systems using layered queuing and historical performance models
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,...
ICDCS
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation with Hybrid Cloud Pricing
—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...
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
CORR
2010
Springer
173views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing
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, ...
ICDCS
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
PREPARE: Predictive Performance Anomaly Prevention for Virtualized Cloud Systems
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...
Yongmin Tan, Hiep Nguyen, Zhiming Shen, Xiaohui Gu...