Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...