MECHANISM FOR ADAPTIVELY CHOOSING UTILITY COMPUTING APPLICATIONS BASED ON NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND EXTENDING SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL LOCAL APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system and method for adaptively choosing applications/utilities can be provided to users in a cloud based utility computing environment (VCE) based on their network characteristics. Methods categorize remote utility computing applications (RAPPs) based on their network Quality of Service (QOS) requirements. Methods decide on suitable RAPPs that can be provided to users based on their network parameters, measured in the network path between users and the nearest utility computing server farm. A local hard disk based operating system and application can be provided, which is not a managed environment, but the access to which is controlled by the utility computing environment.