Resource Management in Clouds: Outlook and Reflections

Cloud computing is a common buzz word in today’s computing environment where processing, storage, network and software are provided as an on demand service to their customers. The resources required by different users depend on their respective personalized applications. Advances in technologies on the other hand, lead to the migration from traditional desktop devices to smart mobile devices. Resource management in cloud is a complex problem due to its inherent nature such as heterogeneity in the resource types and their interdependencies, unpredictable load and scalable nature of the datacenters. This paper reviews various provisioning and load balancing strategies which outlines a conceptual framework of the resource management in various clouds. Additionally, an outlook of common research challenges such as meeting customer demands, application requirements, achieving global manageability of the cloud computing resources, developing energy efficient strategies are discussed for an efficient cloud resource management.