Netstore

A tremendous amount of data is processed daily in the cloud, which inevitably introduces large amounts of data transfer within a datacenter network. Numerous studies have reported that the network is often the performance bottleneck for cloud applications. While flow scheduling techniques have been proposed to mitigate this performance problem, distributed network-aware applications have not received much attention. The advent of software-defined networking (SDN) enables leveraging flow scheduling to make cloud applications network-aware, opening up the potential to improve the performance of these applications.