Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
There is a rapid increase in the size of data centres (DCs) used to provide cloud computing services. It is commonly agreed that not all properties in the middleware that manages D...
The automatic allocation of enterprise workload to resources can be enhanced by being able to make `whatif' response time predictions, whilst different allocations are being c...
David A. Bacigalupo, Jano van Hemert, Asif Usmani,...
—Software license management allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to control the access of their products. It is a fundamental part of the ISVs’ business strategy. A wide...
—Providers of Web-based services can take advantage of many convenient features of cloud computing infrastructures, but they still have to implement request management algorithms...