Colocation as a Service: Strategic and Operational Services for Cloud Colocation

• Published in: 2010 Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications pp. 76 - 83
• Main Authors: Ishakian, Vatche, Sweha, Raymond, Londoño, Jorge, Bestavros, Azer
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2010
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Engines; Games; Memory management; Monitoring; Prototypes; Resource management

By colocating with other tenants of an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, IaaS users could reap significant cost savings by judiciously sharing their use of the fixed-size instances offered by IaaS providers. This paper presents the blueprints of a Colocation as a Service (CaaS) framework....