The significant advances of hardware manufacturing technology and the development of
efficient software algorithms make technically and economically feasible a network …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

A dynamic server migration and consolidation algorithm is introduced. The algorithm is
shown to provide substantial improvement over static server consolidation in reducing the …

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 is described as a mechanism of providing scalable and virtualized
compute resources over the Internet to the public or internally for a company, university, or …

Applications with a dynamic workload demand need access to a flexible infrastructure to
meet performance guarantees and minimize resource costs. While cloud computing …

Cloud computing is a solution for addressing challenges such as licensing, distribution,
configuration, and operation of enterprise applications associated with the traditional IT …

Data grids, large scale web applications generating dynamic content and database service
providing pose significant scalability challenges to database engines. Replication is the …

With the increase of energy consumption associated with IT infrastructures, energy
management is becoming a priority in the design and operation of complex service-based …