Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...
Abstract—Data centers contain IT, power and cooling infrastructures, each of which is typically managed independently. In this paper, we propose a holistic approach that couples ...
Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Chris Hyser, Zhikui Wang,...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or...
—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...