Microsoft researchers explore ‘job-centric’ cloud model
October 25, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Rohan Pearce.
Elasticity — the ability to ramp up or down computing resources depending on need — is one of the key benefits of cloud computing. Not being shackled to their own, in-house hardware means organisations can dial up the amount of resources they need to crunch big data sets, run their Web presence during spikes and troughs in demand and process periodic jobs without needing the internal resources necessary to cope with peak demand.
But although the IT department may be less likely to have to run out to buy a new server or two, they will still have to make decisions about the purchase of resources from a cloud provider. Of course, cloud computing will let you change your mind and respond to changes in an organisation’s demand, but, according to a group of Microsoft researchers, there may be an easier way to go about it, with benefits for both providers and ‘cloud consumers’…
In a paper — presented at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012 earlier this month and titled Bridging the Tenant-Provider Gap in Cloud Services (PDF) — the researchers make the case for allowing cloud tenants to purchase resources based on a "job-centric" model. A job-centric cloud would add another layer of abstraction to the cloud by having an interface that lets tenants specify performance and cost goals, instead of an interface that lets them more directly allocate resources…
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