Unikernels are famous for providing excellent performance in terms of boot times,
throughput and memory consumption, to name a few metrics. However, they are infamous …

Ease of use and transparent access to elastic resources have attracted many applications
away from traditional platforms toward serverless functions. Many of these applications, such …

Cloud computing technology nowadays is a leading IT technology and introduces the next
generation of distributed systems with a great acceptance and impact in the businesses. It …

Applications are migrating en masse to the cloud, while accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs,
and FPGAs proliferate in the wake of Moore's Law. These trends are in conflict: cloud …

Emerging big-data workloads with massive I/O processing require fast, scalable, and flexible
storage virtualization support. Hardware-assisted virtualization can achieve reasonable …

The adoption of 3D NAND has significantly increased the SSD density; however, 3D NAND
density-increasing techniques, such as extensive stacking of cell layers, can amplify read …

The large variety of compute-heavy and data-driven applications accelerate the need for a
distributed I/O solution that enables cost-effective scaling of resources between networked …

Bare-metal instances are crucial for high-value, mission-critical applications on the cloud.
Tenants exclusively use these dedicated hardware resources. Local virtualized disks are …

Key-value (KV) stores support many crucial applications and services. They perform fast in-
memory processing but are still often limited by I/O performance. The recent emergence of …

Serverless platforms have been attracting applications from traditional platforms because
infrastructure management responsibilities are shifted from users to providers. Many …