Unlike a traditional virtual machine (VM), a container is an emerging lightweight
virtualization technology that operates at the operating system level to encapsulate a task …

Data centers and their applications are exponentially growing. Consequently, their energy
consumption and environmental impacts have also become increasingly more important …

Power efficiency is one of the main issues that will drive the design of data centers,
especially of those devoted to provide Cloud computing services. In virtualized data centers …

Data centres are powerful ICT facilities which constantly evolve in size, complexity, and
power consumption. At the same time users' and operators' requirements become more and …

The numerous advantages of cloud computing environments, including scalability, high
availability, and cost effectiveness have encouraged service providers to adopt the available …

Cloud computing, a new paradigm for utility computing, has brought a revolutionary change
in the IT industry by enabling the elastic on demand resource provisioning of computing …

With the advent of new computing technologies, such as cloud computing and contemporary
parallel processing systems, the building blocks of computing systems have become multi …

A datacenter can be viewed as a dynamic bin packing system where servers host
applications with varying resource requirements and varying relative placement constraints …

Cloud computing has been one of significant domains of processing service in social
networks like the internet and local networks in recent years. One of the main problems in …

CLOUD enables access to a shared pool of virtual resources through Internet and its
adoption rate is increasing because of its high availability, scalability and cost effectiveness …