Big Data (BD) platforms have a long tradition of leveraging trends and technologies from the
broader computer network and communication community. For several years, dedicated …

Virtualization is used in data center and cloud environments to decouple applications from
the hardware they run on. Hardware virtualization and operating system level virtualization …

Supercomputing centers are seeing increasing demand for user-defined software stacks
(UDSS), instead of or in addition to the stack provided by the center. These UDSS support …

Containers, enabling lightweight environment and performance isolation, fast and flexible
deployment, and fine‐grained resource sharing, have gained popularity in better application …

A key challenge for supporting elastic behaviour in cloud systems is to achieve a good
performance in automated (de-) provisioning and scheduling of computing resources. One …

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology that is used not only by developers but also by
end-users. It has vital importance in the Information Technology (IT) industries as its future …

The lightweight nature, application portability, and deployment flexibility of containers is
driving their widespread adoption in cloud solutions. Data analysis and deep learning …

Virtualization is an expanding technology in all areas of research and development. It has
been widely accepted because of characteristics such as elasticity and flexibility in …

Virtualization technologies have evolved along with the development of computational
environments since virtualization offered needed features at that time such as isolation …

Since the appearance of Docker in 2013, container technologies for computers have
evolved and gained importance in cloud data centers. However, adoption of containers in …