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Boosting Metrics for Cloud Services Evaluation -- The Last Mile of Using Benchmark Suites
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rainbow Cai +1
Benchmark suites are significant for evaluating various aspects of Cloud services from a holistic view. However, there is still a gap between using benchmark suites and achieving h…
On Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services: A Systematic Review
Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +2
Background: Cloud Computing is increasingly booming in industry with many competing providers and services. Accordingly, evaluation of commercial Cloud services is necessary. Howev…
Spot Pricing in the Cloud Ecosystem: A Comparative Investigation
Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +4
Background: Spot pricing is considered as a significant supplement for building a full-fledged market economy for the Cloud ecosystem. However, it seems that both providers and con…
Early Observations on Performance of Google Compute Engine for Scientific Computing
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rajiv Ranjan +1
Although Cloud computing emerged for business applications in industry, public Cloud services have been widely accepted and encouraged for scientific computing in academia. The rec…
A Factor Framework for Experimental Design for Performance Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, He Zhang +1
Given the diversity of commercial Cloud services, performance evaluations of candidate services would be crucial and beneficial for both service customers (e.g. cost-benefit analys…
Building an Expert System for Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rainbow Cai +1
Commercial Cloud services have been increasingly supplied to customers in industry. To facilitate customers' decision makings like cost-benefit analysis or Cloud provider selection…