Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
VMPlants: Providing and Managing Virtual Machine Execution Environments for Grid Computing
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Managing large networks of virtual machines
LISA '06 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Large Installation System Administration
The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
What a webserver can learn from a zebra and what we learned in the process
CHIMIT '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology
Composable IO: a novel resource sharing platform in personal Clouds
The Journal of Supercomputing
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System administrators are faced with the challenge of making their existing systems power-efficient and scalable. Although Cloud Computing is offered as a solution to this challenge by many, we argue that having multiple interfaces and cloud providers can result in more complexity than before. This paper addresses cloud computing from a user perspective. We show how complex scenarios, such as an on-demand render farm and scaling web-service, can be achieved utilizing clouds but at the same time keeping the same management interface as for local virtual machines. Further, we demonstrate that by enabling the virtual machine to have its policy locally instead of in the underlying framework, it can move between otherwise incompatible cloud providers and sites in order to achieve its goals more efficiently.