When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Cloud technology is moving towards more distribution across multi-clouds and the inclusion
of various devices, as evident through IoT and network integration in the context of edge …

Containerization is widely discussed as a lightweight virtualization solution. Apart from
exhibiting benefits over traditional virtual machines in the cloud, containers are especially …

Vendor lock-in is a major barrier to the adoption of cloud computing, due to the lack of
standardization. Current solutions and efforts tackling the vendor lock-in problem are …

Cloud services and applications prove indispensable amid today's modern utility-based
computing. The cloud has displayed a disruptive and growing impact on everyday …

The combination of traditional cloud computing and mobile computing leads to the novel
paradigm of mobile cloud computing. Due to the mobility of network nodes in mobile cloud …

Serverless computing focuses on develo** cloud applications that comprise components
fully managed by providers. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) service model is often associated …

Background—The proliferation of cloud services has opened a space for cloud brokerage
services. Brokers intermediate between cloud customers and providers to assist the …

The capability to operate cloud-native applications can generate enormous business growth
and value. But enterprise architects should be aware that cloud-native applications are …

The study we have conducted of existing cloud platforms shows that their operating requires
the use of specific and proprietary APIs. This PaaS providers' policy is hampering the …