Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection

Cloud computing despite being in an early stage of adoption is becoming a popular choice for businesses to replace in-house IT infrastructure due to its technological advantages such as elastic computing and cost benefits resulting from pay-as-you-go pricing and economy of scale. These factors have...

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Main Authors: Rehman, Zia, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Hussain, Omar
Other Authors: Leonard Barolli
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Conference Publishing Service 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10521
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author Rehman, Zia
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Hussain, Omar
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Rehman, Zia
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Hussain, Omar
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description Cloud computing despite being in an early stage of adoption is becoming a popular choice for businesses to replace in-house IT infrastructure due to its technological advantages such as elastic computing and cost benefits resulting from pay-as-you-go pricing and economy of scale. These factors have led to a rapid increase in both the number of cloud vendors and services on offer. Given that cloud services could be characterized using multiple criteria (cost, pricing policy, performance etc.) it is important to have a methodology for selecting cloud services based on multiple criteria. Additionally, the end user requirements might map to different criteria of the cloud services. This diversity in services and the number of available options have complicated the process of service and vendor selection for prospective cloud users and there is a need for a comprehensive methodology for cloud service selection. The existing research literature in cloud service selection is mostly concerned with comparison between similar services based on cost or performance benchmarks. In this paper we discuss and formalize the issue of cloud service selection in general and propose a multi-criteria cloud service selection methodology.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-105212023-01-18T08:46:47Z Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection Rehman, Zia Hussain, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Omar Leonard Barolli Fatos Xhafa Service Selection Multi-Criteria Decision Making Cloud Computing Cloud computing despite being in an early stage of adoption is becoming a popular choice for businesses to replace in-house IT infrastructure due to its technological advantages such as elastic computing and cost benefits resulting from pay-as-you-go pricing and economy of scale. These factors have led to a rapid increase in both the number of cloud vendors and services on offer. Given that cloud services could be characterized using multiple criteria (cost, pricing policy, performance etc.) it is important to have a methodology for selecting cloud services based on multiple criteria. Additionally, the end user requirements might map to different criteria of the cloud services. This diversity in services and the number of available options have complicated the process of service and vendor selection for prospective cloud users and there is a need for a comprehensive methodology for cloud service selection. The existing research literature in cloud service selection is mostly concerned with comparison between similar services based on cost or performance benchmarks. In this paper we discuss and formalize the issue of cloud service selection in general and propose a multi-criteria cloud service selection methodology. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10521 10.1109/IMIS.2011.99 Conference Publishing Service fulltext
spellingShingle Service Selection
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Cloud Computing
Rehman, Zia
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Hussain, Omar
Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title_full Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title_fullStr Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title_full_unstemmed Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title_short Towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
title_sort towards multi-criteria cloud service selection
topic Service Selection
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Cloud Computing
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10521