TY - JOUR AU1 - Manasrah, Ahmad M. AU2 - AB - Cloud computing reformed the field of distributed systems and how businesses extend today. How to efficiently utilise the cloud computing resources to gain the maximum profit is one of the main research trends in the field, and the ultimate goal of cloud computing service providers. With the existence of virtualisation technology, running more than one virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine, brought a broad spectrum of benefits to service providers, researchers, etc. Therefore, this paper provides an analysis of the various VM load balancing algorithms. Further, a new VM load balancing algorithm has been proposed for an IaaS framework and implemented in a virtual machine environment of cloud-analyst to achieve better performance in terms of response and processing time. Keywords: cloud-analyst; cloud computing; data centres; virtual machine; load balancing. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Manasrah, A.M. (2017) `Dynamic weighted VM load balancing for cloud-analyst', Int. J. Information and Computer Security, Vol. 9, Nos. 1/2, pp.5­19. Biographical notes: Ahmad M. Manasrah has been an Assistant Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan since 2011. Prior to joining Yarmouk University, he was the Deputy Director of Research and Innovation at the National Advanced IPv6 Center, Malaysia. TI - Dynamic weighted VM load balancing for cloud-analyst JF - International Journal of Information and Computer Security DO - 10.1504/IJICS.2017.082836 DA - 2017-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/inderscience-publishers/dynamic-weighted-vm-load-balancing-for-cloud-analyst-uZGzA0Hlwt SP - 5 EP - 19 VL - 9 IS - 1-2 DP - DeepDyve ER -