Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
— As cloud computing becomes increasingly pervasive, the data center energy consumption attributable to cloud computing is climbing, despite the clarion call of action to reduce ...
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
Applying Cloud computing techniques for analyzing large data sets has shown promise in many data-driven scientific applications. Our approach presented here is to use Cloud comput...
Kalpa Gunaratna, Paul Anderson, Ajith Ranabahu, Am...
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 ...