Improvement in Overall Response Time in Closest data center allocation in cloud computing using CloudAnalyst tool

Abstract

Cloud computing is a latest new computing paradigm where applications, data and IT services are
provided over the Internet. Cloud computing serves different types of the resources in virtualized form which can be
utilized dynamically. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to
store and process their data in third-party data centers. Organizations use the Cloud in a variety of different service
models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and deployment models (Private, Public, Hybrid, and Community). Cloud Analyst is a
tool developed at the University of Melbourne whose goal is to support evaluation of social networks tools according to
geographic distribution of users and data centers. In this tool, communities of users and data centers supporting the
social networks are characterized and, based on their location; parameters such as user experience while using the
social network application and load on the data center are obtained/logged.