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 ...
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,...
Current large distributed systems allow users to share and trade resources. In cloud computing, users purchase different types of resources from one or more resource providers usi...
— Scientific computing often requires the availability of a massive number of computers for performing large scale experiments. Traditionally, these needs have been addressed by ...
—Cloud Computing has great potential of providing robust computational power to the society at reduced cost. It enables customers with limited computational resources to outsourc...