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Cloud platforms host several independent applications on a shared resource pool with the ability to allocate computing power to applications on a per-demand basis. The use of server virtualization techniques for such platforms provide great flexibility ...

Server virtualization enables dynamic workload management for data centers. However, especially live migrations of virtual machines (VM) induce significant overheads on physical hosts and the shared network infrastructure possibly leading to host ...

This paper presents a method for achieving optimization in clouds by using performance models in the development, deployment and operations of the applications running in the cloud. We show the architecture of the cloud, the services offered by the ...

We propose an integrated Cloud computing stack architecture to serve as a reference point for future mash-ups and comparative studies. We also show how the existing Cloud landscape maps into this architecture and identify an infrastructure gap that we ...

Cloud computing faces many of the challenges and difficulties of distributed and parallel software. While the service interface hides the actual application from the remote user, the application developer still needs to come to terms with distributed ...

Virtualization provides a coarse-grained isolation mechanism that results in large systems, with full operating systems and a complete software stack as their foundation. Though much of this foundation is not strictly necessary, the programmatic burden ...

Privacy is an important issue for cloud computing, both in terms of legal compliance and user trust, and needs to be considered at every phase of design. In this paper the privacy challenges that software engineers face when targeting the cloud as their ...

Market competitiveness puts enormous pressures over companies to be agile in providing their offers and adapt to fast changes. In such context, resource dimensioning is an hard and risky task which may lead companies to underprovision their data-center, ...

Hospital environments are currently primarily device-oriented: software services are installed, often manually, on specific devices. For instance, an application to view MRI scans may only be available on a limited number of workstations. The medical ...