When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers customers (tenants) a scalable and
economical way to provision virtual machines (VMs) on demand while charging them only …

Virtual machine technology and the ease with which VMs can be migrated within the LAN,
has changed the scope of resource management from allocating resources on a single …

Virtualization technology and the ease with which virtual machines (VMs) can be migrated
within the LAN have changed the scope of resource management from allocating resources …

Enabled by virtualization technologies, various multi-tier applications (such as web
applications) are hosted by virtual machines (VMs) in cloud data centers. Live migration of …

Uninterrupted uptime is a critical aspect of Virtual Machines (VMs) offered by cloud hosting
providers. Google's VMs run on top of rapidly changing infrastructure: we regularly update …

A system and method for storage resource management using copy-on-write/read
snapshots to redirect the I/O requests without moving the virtual disk is disclosed herein. The …

Abstract In Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enabled cloud data centers, live VM
migration is a key technology to facilitate the resource management and fault tolerance …

Live VMmigration helps attain both cloud-wide load balancing and operational consolidation
while the migrating VMs remain accessible to users. To avoid periods of high-load for the …

Virtualized datacenters strive to reduce costs through workload consolidation. Workloads
exhibit a diverse set of IO behaviors and varying IO load that makes it difficult to estimate the …