Resource management in cloud infrastructure is one of the key elements of quality of
services provided by the cloud service providers. Resource management has its taxonomy …

One of the most important features in Cloud environments is to know the status and the
availability of the physical resources and services present in the current infrastructure. A full …

Cloud computing mechanisms are steadily gaining significance in the field of IT
infrastructure hosting and maintenance. To date, we have reached a point where a …

Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based
applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments …

In the last years, the Cloud services market experienced an extremely rapid growth, which
may lead to severe scalability problems. Therefore, in order to cope with the resource …

Cloud federation enables cloud providers to collaborate in order to create a large pool of
virtual resources at multiple network locations. Different types of federated cloud …

One of the key factors driving Cloud computing is flexible and on-demand resource
provisioning in a pay-as-you-go manner. This resource provisioning is based on Service …

The evolution of cloud computing has changed the way in which cloud service providers
offer their services and how cloud customers consume them, moving towards the use of …

Cloud users have recently expanded dramatically. The cloud service providers (CSPs) have
also increased and have therefore made their infrastructure more complex. The complex …

In recent years, we have experienced a rapid growth of cloud providers with individual
infrastructures, APIs and application data description formats. This diversity has resulted in …