Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

We present fundamental challenges for scalable and dependable service platforms and
architectures that enable flexible and dynamic provisioning of cloud services. Our findings …

The geospatial sciences face grand information technology (IT) challenges in the twenty-first
century: data intensity, computing intensity, concurrent access intensity and spatiotemporal …

To guarantee the vision of Cloud Computing QoS goals between the Cloud provider and the
customer have to be dynamically met. This so-called Service Level Agreement (SLA) …

Cloud computing utilizes arbitrary mega-scale computing infrastructures and is currently
revolutionizing the ICT landscape by allowing remote access to computing power and data …

Cloud computing is a newly emerged computing infrastructure that builds on the latest
achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented …

A deployment system provides the ability to deploy a multi-node distributed application, such
as a cloud comput ing platform application that has a plurality of intercon nected nodes …

Low carbon footprint energy sources such as solar and wind power typically suffer from
unpredictable or limited availability. By globally distributing a number of these renewable …

Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based
applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments …

Following a shift from computing as a purchasable product to computing as a deliverable
service to consumers over the Internet, cloud computing has emerged as a novel paradigm …