Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Cloud computing is revolutionizing how information technology resources and services are
used and managed but the revolution comes with new security problems. Among these is …

We introduce Satori, an efficient and effective system for sharing memory in virtualised
systems. Satori uses enlightenments in guest operating systems to detect sharing …

Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities
specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in which …

Virtual-machine images are currently distributed as disk-image files, which are files that
mirror the content of physical disks. This format is convenient for the virtual machine …

In a virtualization environment that serves multiple tenants, storage consolidation at the
filesystem level is desirable because it enables data sharing, administration efficiency, and …

In a virtualization environment that serves multiple customers (or tenants), storage
consolidation at the filesystem level is desirable because it enables data sharing …

This dissertation demonstrates that operating system virtualization is an effective method for
solving many different types of computing problems. We have designed novel systems that …

A method for creating a virtual machine image, includes: storing a first image manifest for a
first virtual machine image, the first image manifest including a map** from file names of …

The networked and distributed systems research communities have an increasing need for
“replayable” research, but our current experimentation resources fall short of satisfying this …