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Resource Management in Utility and Cloud Computing

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We are entering an era of “Everything-as-a-Service” where resources are shared at an unprecedented scale. The so called utility computing model, built upon cloud computing infrastructures, becomes ubiquitous in the enterprise IT landscape. In this chapter, we first introduce recent advances in the study of the economics of cloud computing, known as Cloudnomics. Next, we describe the motivation behind cost-effective resource management design in Cloudnomics. We also summarize relevant research to the study of resource management in utility and cloud computing. At the end of this chapter, we describe the fundamental research challenges, present our design evolutions with regard to these challenges, and sketch our proposed solutions.

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Zhao, H., Li, X. (2013). Introduction. In: Resource Management in Utility and Cloud Computing. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8970-2_1

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