An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
We are witnessing a revival of Storage Service Providers in the form of new vendors as well as traditional players. While storage outsourcing is cost-effective, many companies are...
Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...
A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers ...
Many large-scale utility computing infrastructures comprise heterogeneous hardware and software resources. This raises the need for scalable resource selection services, which ide...
Paolo Costa, Jeff Napper, Guillaume Pierre, Maarte...