Cloud computing is now a well-consolidated paradigm for on-demand services provisioning
on a pay-as-you-go model. Elasticity, one of the major benefits required for this computing …

A cloud data center provides various facilities such as storage, data accessibility, and
running many specific applications on cloud resources. The unpredictable demand for …

The migration of existing applications to the Cloud requires adapting them to a new
computing paradigm. Existing works have focused on migrating the whole application stack …

Elasticity can be seen as the ability of a system to increase or decrease the computing
resources allocated in a dynamic and on demand way. It is an important feature provided by …

New developments in information technology (IT) provide opportunities for a better quality of
life through benefits such as increased comfort and convenience. Compared to dedicated …

One of the main advantages of the cloud computing paradigm is that it simplifies the time-
consuming processes of hardware provisioning, hardware purchasing and software …

Service Level Agreements (SLA) represent the contract which captures the agreed upon
guarantees between a service provider and its customers. The specifications of existing …

Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management provides readers with a central
source of reference on the data management techniques currently available for large-scale …

One of the main advantages of the cloud computing paradigm is that it simplifies the time-
consuming processes of hardware provisioning, hardware purchasing and software …

The emergence of the cloud computing paradigm introduces a number of challenges and
opportunities to application and system developers. The multiplication and proliferation of …