Cloud infrastructures are becoming an appropriate solution to address the computational
needs of scientific applications. However, the use of public or on-premises Infrastructure as …

Abstract Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds are becoming a customary way to deploy
modern Internet applications. Many cloud management platforms are available for one who …

The use of virtualization in Grid computing has seen a lot of interest lately. However, while
much effort has been expanded on developing the capabilities of Virtual Machine Monitors …

Infrastructure cloud computing introduces a significant paradigm shift that has the potential
to revolutionize how scientific computing is done. However, while it is actively adopted by a …

Virtual machines offer various advantages such as easy configuration, management,
development and deployment of computing resources for cyberinfrastructures. Recent …

The use of virtualization, along with an efficient virtual machine management, creates a new
virtualization layer that isolates the service workload from the resource management. The …

As a key component in a modern datacenter, the cloud operating system is responsible for
managing the physical and virtual infrastructure, orchestrating and commanding service …

One of the many definitions of" cloud" is that of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) system,
in which IT infrastructure is deployed in a provider's data center as virtual machines. With …

Virtualized cloud infrastructures are very popular as they allow resource mutualization and
therefore cost reduction. For cloud providers, minimizing the number of used resources is …

With virtualization, a resource's consumers are provided with a virtual rather than physical
version of that resource. This layer of indirection has helped address myriad problems …