Tool for the evaluation of the e-commerce infrastructures performance in private clouds computing

Abstract

The advance of information systems allows to have new technology infrastructure for e-commerce. Cloud computing is very popular, offering services pricing depending on comsuming resources, mainly virtual machines. This way is not necesary to start investing on infraestructure. This paper presents an infrastructure developed in a private cloud, an e-commerce website is implemented on a virtual machine platform and different scenarios are evaluated with a simulator tool to obtain necessary metrics to make decisions about the infrastructure type to be adopted for the electronic business model.