Cloud computing is a unique technique for outsourcing and aggregating computational
hardware needs. By abstracting the underlying machines cloud computing is able to share …

Server consolidation, by running multiple virtual machines on top of a single platform with
virtualization, provides an efficient solu-tion to parallelism and utilization of modern multi …

Modern datacenters consist of increasingly powerful hardware. Achieving high levels of
utilization on this hardware often requires the execution of multiple concurrent workloads …

Today, IaaS cloud providers are dynamically minimizing the cost of data centers operations,
while maintaining the Service Level Agreement (SLA). Currently, this is achieved by the live …

Modern data centers use virtualization as a means to increase utilization of increasingly
powerful multi-core servers. Applications often require only a fraction of the resources …

In virtualized environments, performance interference between virtual machines (VMs) is a
key challenge. In order to mitigate resource contention, an efficient VM scheduling is …

In today's data center, there is a growing virtualization evolving trend to consolidate multiple
servers into a single physical system. New architecture design that couples more and more …

N-tier application design has become very common in the IT industry. Each individual layer,
such as the application and data layer has its own main functionality. This design is very …