Patching is a critical security service that keeps computer systems up to date and defends against security threats. Existing patching systems all require running systems. With th...
—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...
—Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. As promising as it is, this para...
To reduce cloud system resource cost, application consolidation is a must. In this paper, we present a novel patterndriven application consolidation (PAC) system to achieve efficie...
—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...