Shifting Micro-Enterprises into the Cloud: Guidelines for Cloud Service Providers

Lifting cloud infrastructure service consumers to providers

Today’s commercial cloud infrastructure service providers offer limited resource elasticity, leaving a gap between the vision of full on-demand/utility computing (“computation like electricity from the power plug“) and the economically or technically motivated limitations of virtualisers, cloud stacks and services. For instance, Amazon as popular resource vendor mandates a lower elasticity boun...

RESCUE: Reputation based Service for Cloud User Environment

Exceptional characteristics of Cloud computing has replaced all traditional computing. With reduced resource management and without in-advance investment, it has been victorious in making the IT world to migrate towards it. Microsoft announced its office package as Cloud, which can prevent people moving from Windows to Linux. As this drift is escalating in an exponential rate, the cloud environ...

Billing in the cloud: The missing link for cloud providers

Towards an Efficient Decision Policy for Cloud Service Providers

Cloud service providers may face the problem of how to price infrastructure services and how this pricing may impact the resource utilization. One aspect of this problem is how Cloud service providers would decide to accept or reject requests for services when the resources for offering these services become scarce. A decision support policy called Customized Bid-Price Policy (CBPP) is proposed...

Resource allocation and revenue optimization for cloud service providers

a r t i c l e i n f o Online storage and streaming services are surpassing physical media as the predominate means of disseminating and sharing digital contents such as music, documents, photos, and videos. In addition, many software vendors are switching from on-premises installations to web-based rendering for their offerings. Differentiated pricing, based on tiered service responsiveness and...