Verifying the Availability of Cloud Applications

Melanie Siebenhaar, Olga Wenge, Ronny Hans, Hasan Tercan, Ralf Steinmetz

2013

Abstract

Cloud-based services provide a high level of flexibility and eliminate large up-front IT investments by trading capital expenditure for operational expenditure. However, performance, availability, and security still remain dominant barriers when deciding whether to move to the cloud or not. Although cloud providers already try to tackle these issues by offering SLAs and corresponding monitoring solutions, the ability of these solutions to control the performance of cloud-based services is still considered as unsatisfactory by consumers. In this paper, we present an approach for verifying availability guarantees from a consumer’s perspective, since availability is one of the very few performance parameters that is considered in the SLAs of today’s cloud providers. The aim of our research is to facilitate the verification of performance guarantees independently from a cloud provider, which will help to increase cloud service adoption in the future.

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in Harvard Style

Siebenhaar M., Wenge O., Hans R., Tercan H. and Steinmetz R. (2013). Verifying the Availability of Cloud Applications . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 489-494. DOI: 10.5220/0004377604890494


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Melanie Siebenhaar and Olga Wenge and Ronny Hans and Hasan Tercan and Ralf Steinmetz},
title={Verifying the Availability of Cloud Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={489-494},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004377604890494},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Verifying the Availability of Cloud Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Siebenhaar M.
AU - Wenge O.
AU - Hans R.
AU - Tercan H.
AU - Steinmetz R.
PY - 2013
SP - 489
EP - 494
DO - 10.5220/0004377604890494