Service Ranking Systems for Cloud Vendors

Abstract:

With the emergence of Cloud Computing in recent times, there has been a phenomenal growth in the number of Cloud Vendors (CV) providing their services. As far as the customers are concerned, with so many options available on their plates, it becomes increasingly complex and difficult to choose the right Cloud Vendor for their diverse needs. In this paper, we propose a Static Service Ranking System (SRS) with priorities defined by us in general as well as a Dynamic SRS which identifies the specific user’s priorities to rank the Cloud Vendors in order of their needs. Each factor in the priority is given a weightage accordingly and the CV rankings are calculated based on it.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 3949-3953
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.3949
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Prasenjit Choudhury, Monalisa Sharma, K. Vikas, T. Pranshu, V. Satyanarayana
• Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Vendor (CV), Service Ranking System (SRS)

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