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This article presents the ALOJA project and its analytics tools, which leverages machine learning to interpret big data benchmark performance data and tuning. ALOJA is part of a long-term collaboration between Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Microsoft to automate the characterization of cost-effectiveness on big data deployments, currently focusing on Hadoop. Hadoop presents a complex run-time...
In cloud-based Web application hosting environments, virtualization offers the potential to exploit dynamic resource provisioning and scaling to maintain service level agreements while minimizing resource utilization for a given workload. However, optimal proactive resource provisioning and scaling for a specific Web application require, at the least, a profile of the application's current workload...
With the massification of high speed Internet access, recent industry consumer reports show that Web site performance is increasingly becoming a key feature in determining user satisfaction, and finally, a decisive factor in whether a user will purchase on a Web site or even return to it. Traditional Web infrastructure capacity planning has focused on maintaining high throughput and availability on...
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