Automated cloud brokerage based upon continuous real-time benchmarking
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Abstract
Over the last few years there has been a massive
proliferation of cloud providers, all using a set of different
metrics to describe the service solutions that they offer. This
results in a lack of comparability within and between services
that precludes end users being able to select the most appropriate
service for their needs, based upon their requirements. Here we
outline an automated real-time benchmarking platform that can
interact with cloud brokers to automatically select the most
optimal cloud service provider for a given workload, based upon
up to the minute benchmarking results generated, stored,
collated and compared by the platform itself. This software
package could save end users and enterprises significant amounts
of time and money by ensuring that they always use the most
appropriate VM flavor, on the most appropriate cloud service,
every time they run a workload