Maybe New York should take note Tell me a little about the cloud-seeding [shooting pellets into the sky to change the chemical balance of clouds].
In [123] a structured peer-to-peer network, based on distributed hash tables, is proposed to support service discovery, self-management, and load-balancing of cloud applications.
Request load-balancing is an increasingly supported feature of cloud offerings.
Meanwhile, the future of cloud computing allegedly hangs in the balance.
"Microsoft needs to be a leaner tech giant over the coming years in order to strike the right balance of growth and profitability around its cloud and mobile endeavors," said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets & Co. who rates Microsoft stock the equivalent of a buy.
The design of highly reliable and highly utilized clouds strikes a balance between resource utilization that is high enough to use a majority of cloud resources yet is safely below the threshold in which many concurrent failures are likely.
The reliability and performance of cloud services depend on various factors including load balancing [2, 3] and job dispatching [4, 5].
Finally, [105] proposes an adaptive approach for component replication of cloud applications, aiming at finding a cost-effective placement and load balancing.
