A modern cloud bursting framework

Cloud bursting is the process of integrating public cloud resources along with internal IT infrastructure. In this paper, a new cloud bursting framework named “Platypus” is introduced mainly to resolve some of the unresolved issues in cloud bursting. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive approach for treating the problems of cloud bursting. Most researchers try to tackle one of the aspects of cloud bursting process by suggesting frameworks or through reusing certain techniques to enhance the throughput. On the other hand, Platypus framework achieves the utter ratio of applying the precopying technique and supporting the automation procedures of implementing the cloud bursting approach. In addition, experimental studies based on real values from AWS has been conducted for applying this new framework, and the framework succeeds in answering the question “which application will be precopied and consequently bursted to the cloud?” Moreover, it achieves the trade-off between the time saving and the cost reduction.