Usher is a virtual machine management system designed to impose few constraints upon the computing environment under its management. Usher enables administrators to choose how the...
—Today’s enterprise data centers are shifting towards a utility computing model where many business critical applications share a common pool of infrastructure resources that o...
Virtual machine migration greatly aids management by allowing flexible provisioning of resources and decommissioning of hardware for maintenance. However, efforts to improve netwo...
The web is now being used as a general platform for hosting distributed applications like wikis, bulletin board messaging systems and collaborative editing environments. Data from...
Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Dave King 0002, Thom...
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...