The landscape of cloud computing has significantly changed over the last decade. Not only
have more providers and service offerings crowded the space, but also cloud infrastructure …

The Cloud computing paradigm has revolutionised the computer science horizon during the
past decade and has enabled the emergence of computing as the fifth utility. It has captured …

Elasticity is a fundamental property in cloud computing that has recently witnessed major
developments. This article reviews both classical and recent elasticity solutions and …

Cloud computing is a recent advancement wherein IT infrastructure and applications are
provided as 'services' to end‐users under a usage‐based payment model. It can leverage …

Vendor lock-in is a major barrier to the adoption of cloud computing, due to the lack of
standardization. Current solutions and efforts tackling the vendor lock-in problem are …

A brief review of the Internet history reveals the fact that the Internet evolved after the
formation of primarily independent networks. Similarly, interconnected clouds, also called …

Although Cloud computing itself has many open problems, researchers in the field have
already made the leap to envision Inter‐Cloud computing. Their goal is to achieve better …

Workflow scheduling is one of the prominent issues in cloud computing which is aimed at
complete execution of workflows by considering their QoS requirements such as deadline …

Load Balancing is essential for efficient operations indistributed environments. As Cloud
Computing is growingrapidly and clients are demanding more services and betterresults …

Cloud computing provides effective mechanisms for distributing the computing tasks to the
virtual resources. To provide cost-effective executions and achieve objectives such as load …