About this book
Cloud brokering
Part I. Value-added services in cloud brokering
Cloud performance and placement in cloud brokering
Introduction
Cloud performance evaluation
Motivations and challenges
Studies related to cloud providers performance evaluation
Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) characterization
Placement in cloud brokering
Non-functional requirements-based placement
Application aware placement
Conclusion
Towards a figure of merit for cloud performance
Introduction
Performance evaluation
Evaluation methodology
Experimental setup
Provisioning time
Computation benchmarks performance
Memory benchmarks performance
Storage benchmarks performance
Variability
Figure of merit of VM cloud performance
Mean and radar plot as figures of merit
Simple figure of merit
Figure of merit based on Analytic Hierarchy Process
Case study: CPU-intensive application
Summary
An exact approach for optimizing placement in cloud brokering
Introduction
Goal programming
An exact approach for the Placement problem
Parameters
Variables
Goal
Constraints
Case study: Online trading platform
Part II. A new pricing model in cloud brokering
The Pay-as-you-book pricing model
Introduction
Pricing models in cloud computing
Advance Reservations
Advance Reservation specified by cloud providers
Advance Reservation specified by end-users
Pay-as-you-book
Initial scheduling of Advance Reservations
Pricing and rewarding end-users
Resource allocation policies
Case Study: A Virtual cloud Provider maximizing revenues through the Pay-as-you-book pricing model
Experimental setup
Results and analysis
Summary
Conclusion and future works
Appendix A. Studies related to cloud providers performance
Appendix B. Cloud performance evaluation: details and extended results
Related issues to the performance evaluation
VM configurations
Benchmark duration
Performance-price correlation with a simple figure of merit of Cloud performance
Correlation among VM sizes from different cloud providers
Correlation among different VM sizes from a single cloud provider
Bibliography
List of Figures
List of Tables
