Integrating Network Management for Cloud Computing Services.

摘要

Cloud computing is known to lower costs of corporate IT. Thus enterprises are eager to move IT applications into public or private cloud. Because of this trend, networks connecting enterprises and cloud providers now play a critical role in delivering high-quality cloud applications. Simply buying better devices is not viable for improving network quality, due to high capital costs. A more attractive approach is to better utilize network resources with proper network management. However, there are two problems with current network management: separately managing network components along the end-to-end path, and heavily relying on vendor-specific interfaces with devices.