Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
Michael F. Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen ...
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...
Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, Michael R...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
A block-level continuous data protection (CDP) system logs every disk block update from an application server (e.g., a file or DBMS server) to a storage system so that any disk u...
As E-businesses are becoming ubiquitous, enhancing the performance and scalability of ebusiness systems has become an increasingly important topic of investigation. As Vitruvius (...
Andreas Stylianou, Giovanna Ferrari, Paul D. Ezhil...