Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds

With cloud computing, a virtually inexhaustible pool of computing capacity has become available to IT users. However, given the large number of Infrastructure as a Service offers with differing pricing options, the cost-efficient distribution of workloads poses a complex challenge. In this work-in-p...

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Published inEconomics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services pp. 91 - 101
Main Authors Lampe, Ulrich, Siebenhaar, Melanie, Hans, Ronny, Schuller, Dieter, Steinmetz, Ralf
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Cloud Computing
Deployment
Distribution
Exact
Heuristic
Infrastructure
Offline
Optimization
Workload
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Summary:With cloud computing, a virtually inexhaustible pool of computing capacity has become available to IT users. However, given the large number of Infrastructure as a Service offers with differing pricing options, the cost-efficient distribution of workloads poses a complex challenge. In this work-in-progress paper, we formally describe the Cloud-oriented Workload Distribution Problem and propose an exact as well as a heuristic optimization approach. Through an evaluation that is based on realistic data from the cloud market, we examine the performance and practical applicability of these approaches.
ISBN:9783642351938
364235193X
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-35194-5_7