Bulk data migration between datacenters is often a critical step in deploying new services,
improving reliability under failures, or implementing various cost reduction strategies for …

Using multiple datacenters allows for higher availability, load balancing and reduced latency
to customers of cloud services. To distribute multiple copies of data, cloud providers depend …

Summary form only given. Large-scale systems like BlueGene/L are susceptible to a number
of software and hardware failures that can affect system performance. We evaluate the …

A cloud computing paradigm enables users to access services, applications, and
infrastructure resources by using thin clients anywhere and at any time. In this paradigm …

With the wide adoption of large-scale internet services and big data, the cloud has become
the ideal environment to satisfy the ever-growing storage demand. In this context, data …

Large online service providers (OSPs) often build private backbone networks to interconnect
data centers in multiple locations. These data centers house numerous applications that …

According to current usage patterns, research trends, and latest reports, the performance of
the wide-area networks interconnecting geographically distributed cloud nodes (ie inter …

Wide-area transfer of large data sets is still a big challenge despite the deployment of high-
bandwidth networks with speeds reaching 100 Gbps. Most users fail to obtain even a …

It is typical for video streaming service providers (such as NetFlix) to rely on services from
cloud providers (such as Amazon), in order to build a scalable video streaming platform with …

It is typical for cloud providers to operate a number of geographically distributed data
centers, where inter-data center traffic constitutes a large portion of a cloud provider's traffic …