Abstract:The cloud is not transparent. Users of cloud computing cannot control or monitor important information about their VMs or services, such as placement, true resource allocation, virtualization overhead, etc. Likewise, cloud providers cannot obtain important information about their users' deployment such as the application model, the role of each VM, etc. While such information is not required to be revealed, we claim that this lack of information prevents users from fully understanding their resource availabili… Show more
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