Microsoft Explores ‘Job-Centric’ Provisioning of Cloud Services

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Florence de Borja.

In the paper titled “Bridging the Tenant-Provider Gap in Cloud Services”, Microsoft researchers found out that cloud customers can purchase resources based on the “job-centric” standard. This cloud model will have and additional abstraction layer to cloud computing wherein an interface can be provided for customers to cite cost and performance goals as an alternative to an interface which allow them to allocate resources directly.

The research, which was released at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012, was done by Microsoft Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom. The researches included Ant Rowstron, Thomas Karagiannis, Paolo Costa, Hitesh Ballani, and Virajith Jalaparti. According to them, cloud consumers will find a job-centric interface convenient and easy because it takes out the translation burden of high level objectives to the related resource necessities and it is flexible enough for cloud service providers to assign the amount of resources necessary to a particular job…

According to the research, cloud computing subscribers are responsible for aligning high level time objectives to particular resources required for a specific job. Although this is currently done, the paper revealed that consumers are only able to work out the number and size of virtual machines and not the shared provider infrastructure. Therefore, cloud service providers will find the job-centric model more applicable as they can combine multiple resources to complete a client’s particular job…

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