Efficient Management of Hybrid Clouds
Sofie Van Hoecke, Tom Waterbley, Jan Devos, Tijl Deneut, Johan De Gelas · 2011
Abstract—Cloud computing has become a significant tech-nology trend driven by big players that is transforming our current IT industry. Public cloud computing comes with advan-tages such as cost savings, high availability, and easy scalability. However, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises are driven by different reasons for not outsourcing their IT infrastructure entirely. By combining the benefits of the private and public cloud, hybrid cloud computing allows Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to optimize their infrastructure and run their virtual machines where they will be most effective and efficient. We present in this paper a virtual infrastructure management tool that allows to set-up and manage hybrid clouds efficiently in a user-friendly way. Our tool provides automatic load balancing between the private and public clouds at the virtual machine level, and dynamically upscales on-premise virtual machines to public cloud servers based on cost and performance information. Keywords-hybrid cloud, virtual infrastructure management, SME, load balancing. I.