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Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 15

Proceedings of the 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

A Cost Model for Hybrid Storage Systems in a Cloud Federations

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2018F237

Citation: Proceedings of the 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 15, pages 1025–1034 ()

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Abstract. A cloud federation gives to cloud service providers (CSP) the opportunity to collaborate in order to offer a better QoS to customers at a lower cost. To do so, CSPs make some spare resources available to others at a reduced cost. One of the most critical resources is the storage system as it represents the main system bottleneck. From this point of view, how to efficiently place data in a federation of Clouds with heterogeneous storage systems is a real challenge. To address this issue, one needs to accurately estimate the data placement cost. In this paper, we propose a cost model for hybrid storage systems in a cloud federation for a Database as a Service (DBaaS) application. It takes into account the storage system characteristics, customers I/O workloads and SLA. The proposed cost model considers both 1) Internal customers data placement cost including local placement, outsourcing, back-migration and penalty costs, and 2) External customers data placement cost including insourcing and geo-migration costs. It can be used to help in the decision-making process which aims to enhance customers QoS and reduce CSPs costs in a federation. Simulation results showed the relevance of the considered costs. We have shown that mis-considering some sub-costs may lead to a 95\% cost error for external customers data placement and 80\% for outsourcing customers. This may cause significant financial loss.

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