Optimized Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling

Preface

Optimized resource scheduling can be a few magnitudes better in performance than simple or random resource scheduling.

Cloud computing is a new business model and service model that composes tasks across a large number of different computer data centers, so that all applications can obtain necessary computing power, storage space, and information services. The network or data center that provides services is often called a “cloud.” Cloud computing is treated by researchers as the fifth public resource (the fifth public utility), in addition to water, electricity, gas, and oil. Following the personal computer revolution and Internet changes, cloud computing is seen as the third wave of IT and is an important strategic component of the ...