Service applications are increasingly being deployed in virtualized environments, such as
virtual machines (VMs) as a means to provide elasticity and to allow fast recovery from …

Virtualization is an expanding technology in all areas of research and development. It has
been widely accepted because of characteristics such as elasticity and flexibility in …

The momentum gained by the microservice-oriented architecture is fostering the diffusion of
operating system containers. Existing studies mainly focus on the performance of …

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud computing has brought the rising of IoT
Clouds able to provide different kinds of IoT as a Service solutions consisting of various …

Cloud-based architectures have grown in recent years, especially the interest in container-
based solutions have sharply increased by enterprises worldwide. Containers are a form of …

Operating-system-level virtualization is becoming increasingly important for server
applications since it provides containers as a foundation of the emerging microservice …

With the popularity of cloud computing platforms, server virtualization is a widely used and
powerful technique, for consolidating servers in data centers. For many years, standard …

Operating system (OS) containers enabling the microservice-oriented architecture are
becoming popular in the context of Cloud services. Containers provide the ability to create …

Virtualization technologies such as KVM and XEN have served the purpose of workload
consolidation while providing required isolation. With the advent of Linux Docker platform …

Cloud computing uses pools of virtual machines to provide shared computing resources.
Provisioning and management of these resources are generally done using statistical …