A semantic approach for efficient and customized management of IaaS resources

This paper presents a semantic approach to custom management of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) resources in a cloud computing environment requiring minimal human intervention from both the cloud provider and the user. The proposal differs from other approaches by using autonomic computing and semantic web techniques together to provide a self-configuring and self-optimizing environment that aims to satisfy SLAs (Service Level Agreements). The approach monitors the virtualized resources to guarantee a customized and optimized use based on financial criteria and energy consumption policies.