Cloud computing allows users to access shared, online computing resources. However,
providers often offer their own proprietary applications, APIs and infrastructures, resulting in …

Cloud computing provides users the ability to access shared, online computing resources.
However, providers often offer their own proprietary applications, interfaces, APIs and …

Virtualization techniques aim at handling the growing demand for computing, storage and
communication resources in cloud computing. However, cloud providers often offer their …

• William Voorsluys et al, evaluated the performance cost of virtual machine live migration in
clouds, and shows that in most case, migration overhead is acceptable but cannot be …

Cloud Computing is emerging as an important paradigm shift in how computing demands
are being met in future. It is transforming the role of IT in business in recent years. As …

Cloud providers offer their IaaS services based on virtualization to enable multi-tenant and
isolated environments for cloud users. Currently, each provider has its own proprietary …

Cloud computing has grown in prevalence from recent years due to its concept of computing
as a service, thereby, allowing users to offload the infrastructure management costs and …

Each cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider offers its own set of virtual machine
(VM) images and hypervisors. This creates a vendor lock-in problem when cloud users try to …

While Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds have emerged as a convenient method for
leasing virtual machines (VMs), deploying large enterprise-grade applications remains …

With the rise of cloud computing technology, various multimedia-driven applications in the
domain of education, healthcare and surveillance are being developed and extensively …