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A QoS-aware broker for hybrid clouds

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Hybrid Clouds seems able to offer their customers with differentiate solutions capable of providing more and personalized guarantees with respect to the basic service availability generally supplied. In the context of an Italian research project aimed to transfer ICT advancements from research centers towards ICT SMEs, the paper focuses on the design of a brokering tool for hybrid clouds capable to adequately respond to specific Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Aimed at satisfying the highest number of user requests while trying maximizing the profit of the private provider, in the context of a posted price economic model, the proposed brokering algorithm may apply different allocation policies, based on the reservation of a quota of private resources to high-level QoS applications.

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  1. Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy

    Daniele D’Agostino, Antonella Galizia, Andrea Clematis & Alfonso Quarati

  2. ICT consultant of Network Integration and Solution, Genoa, Italy

    Matteo Mangini

  3. Nextage, Genoa, Italy

    Ivan Porro

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D’Agostino, D., Galizia, A., Clematis, A. et al. A QoS-aware broker for hybrid clouds. Computing 95 (Suppl 1), 89–109 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-012-0254-4

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