Once-in-a-lifetime Workload
IT resources with an equal utilization over time disturbed by a strong peak occurring only once experience Once-in-a-lifetime Workload.
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How can equal utilization with a one-time peak be characterized and how can applications experiencing this workload benefit from cloud computing? |
Context
As a special case of Periodic Workload, the peaks of periodic utilization can occur only once in a very long timeframe. Often, this peak is known in advance as it correlates to a certain event or task.
Solution
The elasticity of a cloud is used to obtain IT resources necessary. The provisioning and decommissioning of IT resources can often be realized as a manual task, because it is performed at a known point in time.
