Virtualization can provide significant benefits in data centers by enabling virtual machine
migration to eliminate hotspots. We present Sandpiper, a system that automates the task of …

In Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing, computational resources are provided
to remote users in the form of leases. For a cloud user, he/she can request multiple cloud …

Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes
to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing …

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 …

Virtualization can provide significant benefits in data centers by enabling dynamic virtual
machine resizing and migration to eliminate hotspots. We present Sandpiper, a system that …

US8473557B2 - Methods and apparatus to migrate virtual machines between distributive
computing networks across a wide area network - Google Patents US8473557B2 - Methods …

Self-adaptive systems have the capability to autonomously modify their behaviour at run-
time in response to changes in their environment. Self-adaptation is particularly necessary …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific
communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relinquish …

Commodity clusters are used routinely for deploying service hosting platforms. Due to
hardware and operation costs, clusters need to be shared among multiple services. Crucial …

Cloud computing platforms enable users to rent computing and storage resources on-
demand to run their networked applications and employ virtualization to multiplex virtual …