Performance isolation is a key challenge in cloud computing. Unfortunately, Linux has few
defenses against performance interference in shared resources such as processor caches …

Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage
resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or …

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computational resources which together
with pay-per-use business models, enable application providers seamlessly scaling their …

The cloud provider plays a major role especially providing resources such as computing
power for the cloud subscriber to deploy their applications on multiple platforms anywhere; …

Workload consolidation is very attractive for cloud platforms due to several reasons
including reduced infrastructure costs, lower energy consumption, and ease of …

Cloud computing offers the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of software services
through the commoditization of information technology assets and on-demand usage …

Due to trends like Cloud Computing and Green IT, virtualization technologies are gaining
increasing importance. They promise energy and cost savings by sharing physical …

DDoS (Distributed denial of service) attacks target on the availability of the victim services.
DDoS attacks, being resource intensive attacks, create a heavy resource contention. In the …

Workload consolidation, whether via use of virtualization or with lightweight, container-
based methods, is critically important for current and future datacenter and cloud computing …

Consolidation of multiple workloads, encapsulated in virtual machines (VMs), can
significantly improve efficiency in cloud infrastructures. But consolidation also introduces …