Performance Driven Cloud Resource Provisioning

Cloud technology has made it easy to use infrastructure or software as a service to businesses, saving huge cost associated with acquisition and management of resources to run a data centre or software licenses which is particularly vital for Small and Medium Enterprises. This has resulted in changing the dynamics of performance management by cloud service providers as the control of day-to-day business are passed to them. This paper focuses on addressing a number of related issues and discusses the break points or criteria to look for in performance management in applications, server and systems in cloud environment architecture. It recommends a semi-automated dynamic cloud resource management for both cloud clients and providers based on performance for small and medium enterprises.