Despite the potential given by the combination of multi-tenancy and virtualization, resource
utilization in today's data centers is still low. We identify three key characteristics of cloud …

In multi-tenant datacenters, jobs of different tenants compete for the shared datacenter
network and can suffer poor performance and high cost from varying, unpredictable network …

Cloud data centers are becoming the preferred deployment environment for a wide range of
business applications because they provide many benefits compared to private in-house …

Resource scheduling in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is one of the keys for large-scale
Cloud applications. Extensive research on all issues in real environment is extremely difficult …

To fully utilize computing resources, cloud providers such as Google and Alibaba choose to
co-locate online services with batch processing applications in their data centers. By …

Elasticity is a key characteristic of cloud computing that increases the flexibility for cloud
consumers, allowing them to adapt the amount of physical resources associated to their …

Virtualized data centers enable sharing of resources among hosted applications. However, it
is difficult to satisfy service-level objectives (SLOs) of applications on shared infrastructure …

Efficient provisioning of resources is a challenging problem in cloud computing
environments due to its dynamic nature and the need for supporting heterogeneous …

We present CCM (Cloud Capacity Manager)-a prototype system and its methods for
dynamically multiplexing the compute capacity of virtualized datacenters at scales of …

Public clouds have become a popular platform for building Internet-scale applications. Using
virtualization, public cloud services grant customers full control of guest operating systems …