Cluster-based scalable network services
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Managing energy and server resources in hosting centers
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
Quantifying the performance isolation properties of virtualization systems
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science
VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
The impact of virtualization on network performance of amazon EC2 data center
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semipersistent Online Hosting at a Large Scale
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Performance Analysis of High Performance Computing Applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud
CLOUDCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Cloud4Home -- Enhancing Data Services with @Home Clouds
ICDCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
CloudMedia: When Cloud on Demand Meets Video on Demand
ICDCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Benchmarking personal cloud storage
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
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Powered by cloud computing, Dropbox not only provides reliable file storage but also enables effective file synchronization and user collaboration. This new generation of service, beyond conventional client/server or peer-to-peer file hosting with storage only, has attracted a vast number of Internet users. It is however known that the synchronization delay of Dropbox-like systems is increasing with their expansion, often beyond the accepted level for practical collaboration. In this paper, we present an initial measurement to understand the design and performance bottleneck of the proprietary Dropbox system. Our measurement identifies the cloud servers/instances utilized by Dropbox, revealing its hybrid design with both Amazon's S3 (for storage) and Amazon's EC2 (for computation). The mix of bandwidth-intensive tasks (such as content delivery) and computation-intensive tasks (such as compare hash values for the contents) in Dropbox enables seamless collaborationand file synchronization among multiple users; yet their interference, revealed in our experiments, creates a severe bottleneck that prolongs the synchronization delay with virtual machines in the cloud, which has not seen in conventional physical machines. We thus re-model the resource provisioning problem in the Dropbox-like systems and present an interference-aware solution that smartly allocates the Dropbox tasks to different cloud instances. Evaluation results show that our solution remarkably reduces the synchronization delay for this new generation of file hosting service.