RT Journal Article T1 Cloud brokering mechanisms for optimized placement of virtual machines across multiple providers A1 Tordsson, Johan A1 Montero, Ruben S. A1 Moreno-Vozmediano, Rafael A1 Llorente, Ignacio M. AB In the past few years, we have witnessed the proliferation of a heterogeneous ecosystem of cloud providers, each one with a different infrastructure offer and pricing policy. We explore this heterogeneity in a novel cloud brokering approach that optimizes placement of virtual infrastructures across multiple clouds and also abstracts the deployment and management of infrastructure components in these clouds. The feasibility of our approach is evaluated in a high throughput computing cluster case study. Experimental results confirm that multi-cloud deployment provides better performance and lower costs compared to the usage of a single cloud only. PB Elsevier SN 0167-739X YR 2011 FD 2011-07-29 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42720 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42720 LA eng NO Unión Europea. FP7 NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) NO Swedish Research Council (VR) DS Docta Complutense RD 17 abr 2025