Although cloud computing has become one of the most popular paradigms for executing
data-intensive applications (for example, Hadoop), the storage subsystem is not optimized …

Cloud bursting is one of the key research topics in the cloud computing communities. A well
designed cloud bursting module enables private clouds to automatically launch virtual …

A technology is described for predicting a launch time for a computing instance. An example
method may include receiving a request for a predicted launch time to launch a computing …

Large-scale virtual machine (VM) deployment in virtualized data centers is a very slow
process. This is primarily due to the resource bottlenecks that are created at the storage …

Cloud bursting is the process of integrating public cloud resources along with internal IT
infrastructure. In this paper, a new cloud bursting framework named “Platypus” is introduced …

FermiCloud is a private cloud developed in Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to provide
elastic and on-demand resources for different scientific research experiments. The design …

Computer clouds are becoming a common platform in many general purpose application
domains. However, due to inherent performance uncertainty within computer clouds …

The advancement of computer and network technology has brought the world into a new
computer cloud era. The" pay-as-you-go" business model and the service oriented models …

This work studies the storage subsystem for scientific big data applications to be running on
the cloud. Although cloud computing has become one of the most popular paradigms for …