IaaS type Cloud infrastructure assessment and monitoring

IaaS type clouds are multilayered complex systems. From end-user perspective, their service quality and reliability depends on heavily the underlying hardware/software infrastructure, the used technologies and resources (e.g.: human resources). To evaluate successfully an IaaS cloud ecosystem, we need to measure it side by side from many perspectives (e.g.: security, QoS, performance, reliability, etc.). Our aim is to build up an exhaustive parameter tree, which can describe the quantitative and qualitative parameter values of a generic IaaS cloud system. The values of these pre-defined parameters are provided by our software measurement framework, which is capable to evaluate the targeted IaaS cloud system automatically. The measured values of the parameter tree enable the potential tenants/end-users and governmental organizations to evaluate and compare different IaaS type cloud systems available on the market.