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SLA-Based Resource Allocation in Cluster Computing Systems
White Papers In enterprise service computing, resource allocation is often associated with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) which is a set of quality of services and a price agreed between a customer and a service provider.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
SLA-Based Service Composition in Enterprise Computing
White Papers In this approach, individual services are federated into composite services which are able to execute a given task subject to a Service Level Agreement (SLA). An SLA is a contract agreed between a customer and a service provider who define a set of...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids
White Papers The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. This paper presents a market-based SLA coordination mechanism. The SLA model is based on a well known contract net protocol.
[March 28, 2008, 7:59]
SLA Trading Strategies
White Papers This paper discusses the concept of SLA trading, its position in SLA framework and its strategic meaning for Internet economy and providers. SLA trading can be seen in the long term a key factor towards a market and business driven multiservice...
[July 29, 2004, 3:00]
SLA-Based Cooperative Superscheduling Algorithms for Computational Grids
White Papers The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes cooperative resource sharing. The work discussed in this paper presents a market-based SLA coordination mechanism, based on a well known contract net protocol.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme for Computational Grids
White Papers The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. This paper presents a market-based SLA coordination mechanism, based on a well known contract net protocol.
[February 4, 2009, 23:00]
SLA Calculus for End-to-End QoS of TCP-Based Applications in a Multi-Domain Environment
White Papers To this end, the authors construct an analytical model that provides a so-called SLA calculus, i.e.a mapping between per-domain network QoS parameters defined in the involved Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and end-to-end QoS metrics like response...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
SLA Monitoring: Manage Your Network Health
White Papers Indeed, without any means of measuring network performance, Service Level Agreements (SLA) cannot be guaranteed from one end to the other end. Network performance, and SLA verification in particular, is even more important when considering the...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
SLA 101: What to Look for in a Service-Level Agreement
White Papers One of the biggest differences among providers of security services is the Service-Level Agreement (SLA). This paper will dive deep into the various aspects of the SLA and attempt to explain in details what the SLA should contain and why each of...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
SLA Automated Negotiation Manager for Computing Services
White Papers It proposes an automated way for creating SLA's from a set of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The SLA should achieve business goals, including the maximization of customer satisfaction. Success in today's marketing arena can often depend on...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
SLA Negotiation Protocol for Grid-Based Workflows
White Papers SLA negotiation protocols define a business relationship between consumer and provider and are thus a necessary part of any commercial Grid application. In the Grid environment, an SLA negotiation protocol for a work flow becomes complicated...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
SLA Design From a Business Perspective
White Papers A method is proposed whereby optimal values for Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of an SLA can be chosen through a business perspective. Business considerations are brought into the model by including the business losses sustained when IT components...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Increase Customer Retention through Proactive SLA Management
White Papers After a broad look at SLAs and how they're being used, this Webcast focuses on three of the critical concerns that must be addressed when developing an SLA. View this Webcast as two top technology experts describe how SLAs are affecting today's IT...
[January 31, 2008, 5:24]
Towards Unified QoS/SLA Ontologies
White Papers An evaluation of existing research in the field of QoS and Service Level Agreement (SLA) ontologies is presented. This paper reports on work in progress to produce a unified Quality of Service (QoS) ontology This ontology must be applicable to the...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Towards Management of SLA-Aware Business Processes Based on Key Performance Indicators
White Papers The fact that the service provider has to offer certain guarantees concerning SLA properties has an impact on the business process lifecycle. This paper introduces a stepwise approach for management of SLA-aware service compositions based on...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Provision of Fault Tolerance With Grid-Enabled and SLA-Aware Resource Management Systems
White Papers In this context a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a powerful instrument for describing all obligations and expectations within a business partnership. Resource Management Systems also have to be SLA-aware, since these systems provide their...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Outline responsibilities and objectives with this SLA for internal business units
White Papers This sample SLA is designed to help you outline service level roles and responsibilities between your IT department and your organization's business units. An SLA enables IT to get an accurate picture of user needs, to establish realistic...
[May 16, 2006, 6:17]
Planning-Based Scheduling for SLA-Awareness and Grid Integration
White Papers The EC-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids) aimed at introducing SLA-awareness in local resource management systems, while the EC-funded project AssessGrid introduced the notion of risk, which is associated with...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Multiobjective Optimization of SLA-Aware Service Composition
White Papers Since different concrete services may operate at different Quality of Service (QoS) measures, application developers are required to select an appropriate set of concrete services that satisfies a given Service Level Agreement (SLA) when a number...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Use SLAs in a Web Services Context, Part 1: Guarantee Your Web Service With a SLA - Introduction, Architecture, and Testing Mechanisms
White Papers This paper explains how one can establish a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) that covers a Web service. The paper covers the exceptions that should be included in a SLA, and gives examples of testing a Web service for SOAP interoperability before...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
