Poncho: Enabling Smart Administration of Full Private Clouds

Clouds establish a new division of responsibilities between platform operators and users than have traditionally existed in computing infrastructure. In private clouds, where all participants belong to the same organization, this creates new barriers to effective communication and resource usage. In this paper, we present poncho, a tool that implements APIs that enable communication between cloud operators and their users, for the purposes of minimizing impact of administrative operations and load shedding on highly-utilized private clouds.