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Farrukh Nadeem, Rizwan Qaiser. An Early Evaluation and Comparison of Three Private Cloud Computing Software Platforms[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2015, 30(3): 639-654. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-015-1550-1
Citation: Farrukh Nadeem, Rizwan Qaiser. An Early Evaluation and Comparison of Three Private Cloud Computing Software Platforms[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2015, 30(3): 639-654. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-015-1550-1
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An Early Evaluation and Comparison of Three Private Cloud Computing Software Platforms

  • 1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;
    2. Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore 54500, Pakistan

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    Farrukh Nadeem received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2009 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Currently, he is an assistant professor of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. His main research interests include performance modeling and prediction, and scheduling scientific workflows in distributed systems, particularly the Grid and the Cloud. He has been involved in several Austrian and Saudi research and development projects. Farrukh has authored more than 22 papers, including four book chapters.

  • Received Date: June 17, 2014
  • Revised Date: January 18, 2015
  • Published Date: May 04, 2015
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  • Cloud computing, after its success as a commercial infrastructure, is now emerging as a private infrastructure. The software platforms available to build private cloud computing infrastructure vary in their performance for management of cloud resources as well as in utilization of local physical resources. Organizations and individuals looking forward to reaping the benefits of private cloud computing need to understand which software platform would provide the efficient services and optimum utilization of cloud resources for their target applications. In this paper, we present our initial study on performance evaluation and comparison of three cloud computing software platforms from the perspective of common cloud users who intend to build their private clouds. We compare the performance of the selected software platforms from several respects describing their suitability for applications from different domains. Our results highlight the critical parameters for performance evaluation of a software platform and the best software platform for different application domains.
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