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 …

Many business cases exploiting big data have been realised in recent years; Twitter,
LinkedIn, and Facebook are examples of companies in the social networking domain. Other …

Cloud computing makes extensive use of virtual machines because they permit workloads to
be isolated from one another and for the resource usage to be somewhat controlled. In this …

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 …

Over the last few years, the use of virtualization technologies has increased dramatically.
This makes the demand for efficient and secure virtualization solutions become more …

Data center power consumption is growing to unprecedented levels: the EPA estimates US
data centers will consume 100 billion kilowatt hours annually by 2011. Much of this energy is …

Cloud computing allows to utilize servers in efficient and scalable ways through exploitation
of virtualization technology. In the Infrastructure-as-a-Server (IaaS) Cloud model, many …

As Cloud computing emerges as a dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it is important
to fully understand the underlying technologies that make Clouds possible. One technology …

Server virtualization offers the ability to slice large, underutilized physical servers into
smaller, parallel virtual machines (VMs), enabling diverse applications to run in isolated …

In the virtualization area, replication has been considered as a mechanism to provide high
availability. A high-availability system should be active most of the time, and this is the …