Operating profiles for consumers of computing resources may be automatically determined
based on an analysis of actual resource usage measurements and other operating met rics …

(57) ABSTRACT A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing
based on content popularity information are provided. A client computing device transmits a …

(57) ABSTRACT A global server load balancing (GSLB) switch serves as a proxy to an
authoritative DNS communicates with numerous site Switches which are coupled to host …

Operating profiles for consumers of computing resources may be automatically determined
based on an analysis of actual resource usage measurements and other operating met rics …

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(57) ABSTRACT A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing
based on application information associated with the requested resource are provided. A …

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(57) ABSTRACT A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing
based on cost information are provided. A client request processing a resource identifier for …

Each server includes a resource store with a set of resources for distribution to a successive
tier. Updates to each Succes sive tier are provided by a pull-forward client on servers in the …