Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of
commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers …

Cloud computing is described as a mechanism of providing scalable and virtualized
compute resources over the Internet to the public or internally for a company, university, or …

With the increase of energy consumption associated with IT infrastructures, energy
management is becoming a priority in the design and operation of complex service-based …

An on-demand compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes within an on-demand
compute environment available for provisioning and a slave management module operating …

We introduce and evaluate a middleware clustering technology capable of allocating
resources to web applications through dynamic application instance placement. We define …

With the development of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), organizations are able to
compose complex applications from distributed services supported by third party providers …

Since many Internet applications employ a multitier architecture, in this article, we focus on
the problem of analytically modeling the behavior of such applications. We present a model …

Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for controlling and
managing the identification and provisioning of resources within an on-demand center as …

Nowadays, large service centers provide computational capacity to many customers by
sharing a pool of IT resources. The service providers and their customers negotiate utility …