Systems management in the age of cloud

Summary form only given. With the growing demand for cloud computing and the need for elastic environments comes new challenges in systems manageability. The abstraction of physical from application to the end-user computing and the need to expand and contract capacity on demand has introduced a new paradigm for systems and application management. Transiency of performance counters and the inability to get appropriate sample sizes renders traditional frequency based statistical analysis techniques ineffective. This talk will look into current research at VMware regarding these topics and the general trends in systems management in the age of the hybrid cloud.