Related US Application Data(57) ABSTRACT (62) Division of application No. 14/247,594,
filed on Apr. 8, 2014, now Pat. No. 9,385,934. Approaches for monitoring performance in a …

Today, healthcare providers are experiencing explosive growth in data, and medical
imaging represents a significant portion of that data. Meanwhile, the pervasive use of mobile …

Approaches for monitoring performance in a networked environment are provided. An
approach includes monitor ing, using a first metric, performance of a first host running a …

The cloud has recently surged as a promising paradigm for hosting scalable Web systems
serving a large number of users with large workload variations. It makes possible to …

This paper presents a methodology for efficiently solving the file transfer scheduling problem
in a distributed environment. Our solution is based on the relaxation of an objective-based …

Currently, data centers offer cloud computing platforms relying on virtualization technology
and multi-tier architecture to handle an ever increasing scale and to provide elastic service …

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm in which users' access to a shared pool of
computing resources is dynamically allocated (ie ubiquitous computing service), depending …

Applications running in today's data centers show high workload variability. While seasonal
patterns, trends and expected events may help building proactive resource allocation …

Data intensive applications are usually designed using a multi-tier architecture that
comprises a web tier, an application tier and a backend database tier. To process requests …

With the rapid progress of computing, storage and networking technologies, distributed
computing paradigms have undergone profound changes in the past decade. We are …