As a general rule, a negotiation precedes an agreement. However, the statement does not hold necessarily in a Cloud environment, although reaching a Service Level Agreement is considered relevant: currently the user submits a request to the provider, that rejects the request only in case the requested service level cannot be met.
In your opinion, a real negotiation, with offers and counter-offers, may positively impact the provisioning of cloud resources? For instance, by proposing alternate solutions that improve resource utilization.
I think it is meaningful...and important in the long run. Of course, the negotiation time, when the demand is time critical may be a factor. Coud environment has enough factors to negotiate with the per-use pricing model. One could indicate parameters on which you are flexible with associated range, and the cloud system could propose solutions with relevant price ranges, and so on. Trade of memory, cpu power, completion deadline, priority, etc against price, or even against each other.
For those (not many) that are interested in the topic, this discussion on LinkedIn may be of interest:
http://lnkd.in/_XmkbZ
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