Cloud computing is expected to become a common solution for deploying applications
thanks to its capacity to leverage developers from infrastructure management tasks, thus …

Play-on-demand is usually regarded as a feasible access mode for web content (including
streaming video, web pages and so on), web services and some Software-As-A-Service …

Cloud computing is a new paradigm that is gaining exponential interest in the field of
delivering IT resources in a metered manner. It also provides cost efficient architectures that …

We present in our paper a secure, flexible and transparent security architecture for virtual
disk images. Virtual disk images are often overlooked in security concepts, especially in a …

To access personalized software applications on demand is an attractive usage mode of
software. This paper presents such a solution based on lightweight virtualization …

Modern commodity platforms have become easy targets, which are increasingly plagued by
malware exploiting legacy design weaknesses. Malware often abuses the large and feature …

Disk pre-fetching, known as “readahead” of Linux kernel, arranges its coverage size by the
rate of cache hit. Fewer readaheads of large window can hide the slow I/O, especially it is …

Network-booting is widely adopted in universities that have to maintain many client
computers. In conventional network-booting systems, the primary bottleneck is the disk …

We developed 1CD Linux which shows the benefit of trusted computing. It includes Trusted
Boot and Platform Trust Services, which use a secure chip" TPM" and are hardware rooted …

Abstract CAS (Content Addressable Storage) is virtual disk with deduplication, which
merges same-content chunks and reduces the consumption of physical storage. The …