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Performance Analysis
for Large IaaS Clouds
Rahul Ghosh, Francesco Longo,
and Kishor S. Trivedi
18.1 INTRODUCTION
IaaS clouds are major enablers of data-intensive cloud applications because they
provide necessary computing capacity for managing Big Data environments. In a
typical IaaS cloud, virtual machine (VM) instances deployed on physical machines
(PM) are provided to the users for their computing needs. Recently, IaaS cloud
providersare realizing that merely providing the basic functionalities for Big Data
processing is not sufcient to survive intense business competitions. Rather, the
performance of the cloud provided service is a ...