A study on method of calculating cloud computing server capacity for SaaS

Abstract

For cloud computing services, which require huge server resources, it is of key importance to calculate the HW capacity of service systems more systematically and accurately. Many IT service enterprises have provided SaaS by signing MOUs with enterprises equipped with a cloud infrastructure. Thus, the research on the hardware capacity calculation method for SaaS, the base of cloud services, is the foundational research that is needed to expand cloud computing into various businesses within the cloud in the future. As such, in this research, a method and criteria are proposed for calculating the capacity of hardware, out of the computing infrastructures involved in SaaS. The results of this research may be utilized as a guideline for HW capacity calculation during the establishment of a cloud computing environment. © 2015 Kook-Hyun Choi, Yang-Ha Chun, Se-Jeong Park, Yongtae Shin and Jong-Bae Kim.