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 …

The automatic elimination of duplicate data in a storage system, commonly known as
deduplication, is increasingly accepted as an effective technique to reduce storage costs …

Data deduplication, an efficient approach to data reduction, has gained increasing attention
and popularity in large-scale storage systems due to the explosive growth of digital data. It …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Multi-tenant cloud, which usually leases resources in the form of virtual machines, has been
commercially available for years. Unfortunately, with the adoption of commodity virtualized …

Post-deduplication delta compression is a data reduction technique that calculates and
stores the differences of very similar but non-duplicate chunks in storage systems, which is …

Abstract Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance
and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the …

Virtual machine technology and the ease with which VMs can be migrated within the LAN,
has changed the scope of resource management from allocating resources on a single …

Live migration of virtual machines has been a powerful tool to facilitate system maintenance,
load balancing, fault tolerance, and power-saving, especially in clusters or data centers …

Resource provisioning in compute clouds often require an estimate of the capacity needs of
Virtual Machines (VMs). The estimated VM size is the basis for allocating resources …