In recent years we have witnessed a great interest in large distributed computing platforms, also known as clouds. While these systems offer enormous computing power, they are howe...
The current trend of increasingly larger Web-based applications makes scalability the key challenge when developing, deploying, and maintaining data centers. At the same time, the ...
Abstract. Nowadays, virtualization solutions are gaining increasing importance. By enabling the sharing of physical resources, thus making resource usage more efficient, they promi...
Nikolaus Huber, Marcel von Quast, Fabian Brosig, S...
New technologies have recently emerged to challenge the very nature of computing: multicore processors, virtualized operating systems and networks, and data-center clouds. One can...
Most software tools and environments help developers analyze the present and past development states of their software systems. Few approaches have investigated the potential cons...
Yuriy Brun, Reid Holmes, Michael D. Ernst, David N...