IaaS cloud benchmarking
Alexandru Iosup · 2013
Over the past five years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds have grown into the branch of ICT that offers services related to on-demand lease of storage, computation, and network. One of the major impediments in the selection and even use of (commercial) IaaS clouds is the lack of benchmarking results, that is, the lack of trustworthy quantitative information that allows (potential) cloud users to compare and reason about IaaS clouds.