Towards better manageability of database clusters on cloud computing platforms

Cloud computing (CC) has become a very popular computing model in the last decade, as it has proved to be a cost-effective alternative to large-scale computers hosted in conventional Information Technologies (IT) department. The ability to provide on-demand IT-related resources either through the internet (public clouds) or private networks (private clouds) based on customer's needs, and the scalability they have to deliver resources horizontally, can be considered the main reasons for such popularity and have led such a CC platforms to a scenario involving the hosting of other types of systems, such as those that control large volume of data, like database management systems (DBMS).