By Allen Kane
Jason Bloomberg once wrote a good definition on cloud workloads: “The best way to think about a Cloud workload is [as] all the individual capabilities and units of work that make up a discrete application.” I’d like to take that thought further and say a key component to successful cloud computing is
the ability to service varied workload requests …
A data-analysis application would require a differently configured workload than a simple communication-oriented app, and so on. The service tasks I’m talking about would have to include performing the input analysis needed to determine the changes to make and the resources to use and executing those decisions.
… DYNAMICALLY!
Read the entire article at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/56ad5cd8-d65d-45b0-b61b-daa00acfd7cd/entry/automate_cloud_app_scaling_resource_use_and_recovery?lang=en.
