Popular Internet applications deploy a multi-tier architecture, with each tier provisioning a certain functionality to its preceding tier. In this paper, we address the challengin...
TimesTen Performance Software's Front-Tier product is an application-tier data cache that inter-operates with disk-based relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to ac...
Dynamic capacity provisioning is a useful technique for handling the multi-time-scale variations seen in Internet workloads. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic provisioning...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant J. Shenoy, Abhishek Cha...
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly...
Multi-tier web server systems are used in many important contexts and their security is a major cause of concern. Such systems can exploit strategies like least privilege to make ...
Jodie P. Boyer, Ragib Hasan, Lars E. Olson, Nikita...