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Scalable Resource Provisioning in the Cloud Using Business Metrics

Authors:
Wlodzimierz Funika
Pawel Koperek

Keywords: cloud computing; monitoring; scaling; resource provisioning; business metrics

Abstract:
Currently cloud infrastructures are in the spotlight of computer science. Through offering on-demand resource provisioning capabilities and high flexibility of management cloud-based systems can seamlessly adjust to the constantly changing environment of the Internet. They can automatically scale according to a chosen policy. Despite the usefulness of the currently available tools in this area there is still much space for improvements. In this paper we introduce a novel approach to automatic infrastructure scaling, based on the observation of business-related metrics. We present details on a tool based on this concept, which uses a semantic-based monitoring and management system, called SAMM. At the end we discuss the capabilities of the new mechanisms.

Pages: 72 to 77

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: November 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-172-4

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 20, 2011 to November 25, 2011