CloudMeasure: A Platform for Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Systems

Concepts such as price, performance, time to completion (availability), probability of failure and nonrepudiation are key to developing a comparison service in order to establish Service Level Agreements (SLA) or design better mechanisms to improve performance in Cloud Computing Systems (CCS). This work presents our design of a performance analysis platform that includes an infrastructure, a framework for performance measurement and tools to facilitate the design, validation, and comparison of performance models and algorithms for CCS. The purpose of the platform is to help establish attribute-performance relationships relating to specific applications with relatively well-known demands on systems in order to be able to determine how comparison services may be formulated.