The growth and evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) has been rapid over the last ten
years and this has been caused mainly by factors such as the social Web and mobile …

Large-scale data centers leverage virtualization technology to achieve excellent resource
utilization, scalability, and high availability. Ideally, the performance of an application …

The popularity of online services has grown exponentially, spurring great interest in
improving server hardware and software. However, conducting research on servers has …

The high cost of provisioning resources to meet peak application demands has led to the
widespread adoption of pay-as-you-go cloud computing services to handle workload …

In order to optimally deploy their applications, users of Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds are
required to evaluate the costs and performance of different combinations of cloud …

Summary In 2011, Google released a 1‐month production trace with hundreds of thousands
of jobs running across over 12,000 heterogeneous hosts. In order to perform in‐depth …

Databases continue to be the most commonly used backend storage in enterprises, but they
are often integrated with vulnerable applications, such as web frontends, which allow …

Virtual threads are a highly anticipated feature in the Java world, aiming at improving
resource efficiency in the JVM for I/O intensive operations while simplifying developer …

Recent increases in live and on-demand video streaming have dramatically changed the
Internet landscape. In North America, Netflix alone accounts for 28% of all and 33% of peak …

A multi-tier Internet server application needs to be analyzed for its performance before it is
released. Performance analysis is usually done by (a) load testing of the application on a …