While many public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go computing, their varying approaches to infrastructure, virtualization, and software services lead to a problem of plenty. To ...
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang
— This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of...
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogae...
Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful ls and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of ...
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...