Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems Volume 160 || Cloud Computing Value Chains: Understanding Businesses and Value Creation in the Cloud

✍ Scribed by Neumann, Dirk; Baker, Mark; Altmann, Jörn; Rana, Omer

• Book ID: 115464316
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 545 KB
• Edition: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3764388994
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8899-7_11

✦ Synopsis

Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BOINC, BitTorrent, and SETI@home, a widespread use of these technologies for business applications has not yet been achieved. In a business environment, mechanisms are needed to provide incentives to potential users for participating in such networks. These mechanisms may range from simple non-monetary access rights, monetary payments to specific policies for sharing. Although a few models for a framework have been discussed (in the general area of a "Grid Economy"), none of these models has yet been realised in practice. This book attempts to fill this gap by discussing the reasons for such limited take-up and exploring incentive mechanisms for resource sharing in distributed systems. The purpose of this book is to identify research challenges in successfully using and deploying resource sharing strategies in open-source and commercial distributed systems.